This October, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring one of the most popular film series of all time to Blu-ray: the
Jurassic Park Trilogy. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, director Steven Spielberg's
Jurassic Park created a world where science brought the dinosaurs back to life, a world further explored in its popular sequels
The Lost World: Jurassic Park and
Jurassic Park III.
Universal presents the
Jurassic Park Trilogy remastered for 1080p, with all films shown in their original aspect ratios of 1.85:1 and given DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. In terms of special features, the Blu-ray collection will feature
all supplements from the previous DVD editions, including (but not limited to):
- The Making of Jurassic Park featurette
- The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park featurette
- The Making of Jurassic Park III featurette
- Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park featurette
- Early Pre-Production Meetings
- The World of Jurassic Park featurette
- The Magic of Industrial Light & Magic featurette
- Location Scouting
- Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen featurette
- The Jurassic Park Phenomenon: A Discussion with Author Michael Crichton featurette
- Industrial Light & Magic and Jurassic Park: Before and After The Visual Effects featurette
- Industrial Light & Magic and The Lost World: Jurassic Park Before & After featurette
- The Industrial Light & Magic Press Reel
- A Visit to Industrial Light & Magic featurette
- Hurricane in Kauai featurette
- Dinosaur Turntables featurette
- The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III featurette
- Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs featurette
- Animatics: T-Rex Attack featurette
- The Special Effects of Jurassic Park III featurette
- The Sounds of Jurassic Park III featurette
- The Art of Jurassic Park III featurette
- Tour of Stan Winston Studio featurette
- Feature Commentary on Jurassic Park III with Special Effects Team
- Production Archives: Storyboards, Models, Photographs, Design Sketches, and Conceptual Drawings
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailers
Furthermore, the
Jurassic Park Trilogy has digital copies of the three films and over two hours of bonus materials
newly produced for Blu-ray; the new material takes the form of a six-part retrospective documentary titled
Return to Jurassic Park. This documentary - made up of the
Dawn of a New Era,
Making Pre-history,
The Next Step in Evolution,
Finding The Lost World,
Something Survived, and
The Third Adventure behind-the-scenes segments - features never-before-seen interviews with the cast and crew of the three films, including
Jurassic Park and
The Lost World: Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg.
Exclusive to Blu-ray will be Universal's BD-Live, My Scenes, pocket BLU, Advanced Remote Control, Video Timeline, Mobile-To-Go, Browse Titles, and Keyboard interactive functionality components.
As previously reported, Universal will also offer the
Jurassic Park Trilogy in a special "Limited Edition" Blu-ray gift set; check back later for further information on that version of the trilogy.
The
Jurassic Park Trilogy streets on October 25th, 2011.