Originally Posted by GMpasqua
Remember when they remade "The King and I" - as a cartoon.
Remakes of classic films usually don't make of an impact
That one made an impact — like a meteor.
But back to the topic at hand, I'm hoping the eventual Blu-Ray is not tied into the success or failure, or even existence, of this remake that keeps getting pushed back and may not even happen (I won't be seeing it no matter who is in it, unless Julie Andrews gets her voice back and magically becomes 50 years younger). Nor do I want to wait until its 50th Anniversary in 2014 unless that's what it takes to get it up to the best possible quality.
The 30th Anniversary Edition is one of the laserdisc box sets I still keep around (along with the Sound of Music box that came around the same time and The Ultimate Oz) thanks to the non-disc extras like the 70mm film clip (mine has Higgins sitting on a chair in his mother's house during "Without You"), and the book by Cecil Beaton that have not been available anywhere else.