Super 8 DVD & Blu-ray release
Super 8 quietly bubbled away at the cinema with murmurings of potentially being a modern day classic. However, it will be the slow burn of the Super 8 movie DVD & Blu-Ray release that will determine how well it stands the test of time. With Steven Spielberg as the producer and JJ Abrams as the director of the movie, it’s definitely got a chance of being seen as somewhere in between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Stand By Me.
Set in little town Ohio, Super 8 is the story of a group of kids that catch a glimpse of something unexpected when they film a trail derailing with their Super 8 film camera. During the aftermath, they suddenly face their crazed biology teacher and the arrival of the US Air Force as the dangers of the night unfold.
The cast is made up of relatively unknown actors, including Joel Courtney as Joe Lamb, the main kid in the childhood thriller, along with Riley Griffiths as his friend Charles Kaznik and Elle Fanning as Alice, their mutual teenage love interest.
Special features for the Super 8 DVD includes commentary from JJ Abrams, Bryan Burk (co-producer) and Larry Fong (cinematography), the dream behind Super 8 and a feature entitled, The Visitor Live. However, the triple play Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy edition adds the search for new faces, an introduction to Joel Courtey, a feature called Rediscovering Steel Town, the production of the movie score, a deconstruction of the train crash and deleted scenes, along with Do You Believe in Magic? the 8mm Revolution and Easter Eggs features in one big bumper bundle.
The Super 8 DVD and triple play Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy version have a 12th December 2011 release date.
