Two of the biggest superhero movies of the year will inevitably be big on the home front as well, with DVD and Blu-ray details starting to emerge for Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Guardians of the Galaxy, still in cinemas around the world, will be a DVD and Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D release on 9 December 2014 in the US, with other dates to follow. Details are scarce at the moment, but let’s hope that this is a significantly bigger package than some of the recent Marvel home releases. (We’re hoping for that Groot commentary track.) We know that there will be at least one deleted scene that will make it to the Blu-ray, one that specifically features the actor Spencer Wilding, who appears in the film as the blue Mean Guard that has a fondness for Quill’s Walkman. Director James Gunn teased on social media that a deleted scene would make it to the home release, specifically it would be…
…a scene where he danced through the prison listening to Quill’s Walkman (specifically, Magic by Pilot). We cut the scene for many reasons, but it was awesome and hilarious and Spence more than deserved his rarely-given Play-Doh (and, yes, before you ask me a thousand times below, it WILL be on the Blu-Ray outtakes, and no I will not tell you the release date – you can go see the movie again! It’s still out!) Have a great day (or night depending in where you are).
Meanwhile, while X-Men: Days of Future Past is already due to come out on DVD/Blu-ray and digital on 14 October 2014 (and 15 October 2014 in Australia), fans might want to hold off a little bit longer if they want to avoid the inevitable double-dip. Writer and producer Simon Kinberg told Variety that the fabled “Rogue Cut”, featured extended scenes that include Anna Paquin’s character Rogue, would be released in US “summer 2015”.
Clocking in at an additional 10 minutes, which would take the total to over 140 minutes, Kinberg says: “It’s a big chunk, a substantial part of the movie. We want to give (fans) the fullest picture of the film — behind the camera, and in front of it [and] more of the process we went through.”
There will still be only one of these films we can dance to.
