the Game

Hi David, welcome to the new section of the site.

my question is simply on the movie
The Game.


you seemed to hint maybe about a year ago about something special
you were working on and some people were hoping it was a special edition of this movie.
So is there a special edition of this coming out?

I know it came out on hd dvd but was a bare release.

Thanks again for making your self available to talk about movies or whatever.

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My pleasure, Tony. And thanks for your interest.

I think the project I was talking about was Benjamin Button. At any rate, it wasn't The Game, because Fincher and I have never had a serious discussion about it, and no one has approached us. I have told him a couple of times that there is a lot of interest in a special edition. I'm sure it will come around eventually, but nothing firm at the moment.

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Ok that's what it was.
Thanks David.

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FWIW, I wouldn't mind seeing at least an anamorphic DVD of this, if not a moderate SE.

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I'd snap up an improved SE of this as well, if we're keeping tabs.

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I love "The Game" and cherish my Criterion Laserdisc. I would happily purchase a BLu-ray edition, if the picture quality would be improved over the not very good HDDVD (according to most reviews).

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When was the last time Criterion licensed from Universal for a DVD? They've obviously done it several times in the past and I would think that they'd be happy to at least throw the laserdisc extras onto a DVD with an anamorphic transfer if Universal isn't interested in doing anything with the film itself.

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David, there's already a Special Edition released in the UK.

Rewind @ www.dvdcompare.net - Game (The) (1997)

Any chance there being a 2-Disc set with even more extras? Now, alot of people on this site appears to not be multi-region capable excluding myself and import titles. Guess they're lazy.
Any plans for a more definite Region 1 release?

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Hi,

I sincerely hope The Game SE (R2) is finally ported over to R1 this year. The disc already exists so I don't really understand the long wait. The only reason I can think of is that the studio forgot about the film. Perhaps Benjamin Button will remind Universal of some previous efforts from this superb director?

Best case scenario I would also like, as I'm sure many others would, a simultaneous blu-ray release with this reissue.

Thanks again for all your hard work.