I remember for years hearing about the deleted scene from Willow in which he fights a fish-boy - I think Starlog's official Willow movie magazine mentioned it first. Back in 1988, though, getting to see that kind of thing was a rarity. Come March 12th, it's coming in high-definition.
Don't worry - this may be a Lucasfilm production, but the deleted scenes are staying separate.
The Blu-ray also includes on-set behind-the-scenes stuff, from a time when Val Kilmer had a six-pack and George Lucas had a chin. Here's the brand-new featurette:
Willow has had a mixed reputation over the years - the comic relief Brownies were like the Jar Jar Binkses of their day, and it is probably the only medieval fantasy feature to climax in an old lady fistfight. On the whole, though, its fun factor tends to induce forgiveness of the flaws in those who are old enough to have grown up with it. Plus it's the first movie to use morphing as a digital effect.
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Forget all you know...becauuse Blu-ray will remember it for you.
Additional all-new features include more deleted Scenes with Ron Howard and Warwick Davis' video diary. And the release date is undoubtedly a timely reminder that yes, Disney, this is a property you also get to revisit now if you like...
I remember loving this movie as a kid, especially the two headed transformed troll fight, and I bought it a couple of years ago on DVD. Two things I noticed are: the big transformed troll fight is still pretty cool, and this movie is much longer than i remember it being. Kinda took the fun away from it.
@Dudley_Dawson you know - alot of older film are like that. Gremlins is a great example of a movie our generation LOVED but re-watching it, it takes WAY too long to get to the "gremlins"... I blame it on editing styles changing to match how people have no attention span nowadays lol
and thus lucas selling out to disney is bearing fruit now willow gets the dvd treatment it deserves. hope this is followed by howard the duck with the same stuff
I have always loved Willow, Warwick, SORSHA and Madmartigan.
What I don't love, I've decided? Having to hit the "MORE........." button to read every single article posted here now. I know y'all are tracking oage views and making it easiertoreadmoreshitseeadsgetpaid and all, but now, instead of reading every article, I'm just reading part of them and moving on. I'm grumpy this time of year.
Willow is one of the best sword/sorcery movies ever made!!!
Although I haven't jumped on the Blu-ray train yet, this release is pretty exciting. Can't wait to see these new features.
I remember when the DVD craze began:
I had $100 dollars of Christmas money burning in my pocket and I knew I had to get me some of these crazy digital versatile discs! I went to the local Hastings (yes...Hastings) and was able to get my first 3 DVDs for just under $100.
They were Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgement Day.............and WILLOW!
Though I liked Doctor Who's Season 26 opener Battlefield even more*, where Jean Marsh is playing a more sympathetic version of practically the same villain she played in Willow.
* Something I seem to be in the minority re Who fans, but I think it's more being followed by Curse of Fenric, Ghost Light, and Survival . Okay, Mordred's five minute laughing fit. And the green puke-missle that chases the Doctor around in the Arthur's Tomb cliffhanger... I still like it, so there.
Not to be a downer on here but i would like to take two seconds and wish my condolences for those families in Newtown, Connecticut. I just heard the news and i'm sorry for that loss. Stay strong guys!
@Canadian.Scott Don't feel like that's out of place at all. Thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims as well as the families of survivors who have to explain to their kids why something so awful happened at their school.
The Brownies were no was as bad as Jar Jar Binks. For one, they spoke in grammatically correct sentences albeit with "funny accents." Also they were actually funny and didn't remind me of the 20s-40s when there was all that Blackface going on in Hollywood.
I remember that this movie scared the crap out of me as a kid, largely because of the morphing effects--I had a bad experience with Jekyll and Hyde cartoons as a child, and because of that I've always found transformation sequences exceptionally creepy. Overall, though, I remember that I liked the movie, I just hid behind the sofa a lot throughout. Glad to see that it's getting the digital remastery treatment, even if it is only because short heroes on a quest are suddenly popular again.
@rabidronnie To be fair, I wasn't even thinking about that when I popped it into my player last week. It had just been a very long time since I'd seen Willow and I was tired of watching Fawlty Towers for the 800th time.
@Shemp Depends on the size of the post. The Charlie Brown/Louie one, for example, had no click-through because it was one video. Basically there's no hard and fast rule.
@johnny@LYT@Shemp why do we care about having to click? I'm thinking that there's a good reason that I'm not seeing. I have to click to get to the comments anyway.
