Sometimes a little snippet of news creeps onto the interwebs from out of nowhere and absolutely makes my day. Today, Bleeding Cool confirmed, via an interview with director David Lynch on KCRW (and dugpa.com) that we will, in fact see a new Blu-ray edition of Blue Velvet soon and that it will contain some of the long lost deleted scenes from the film! Consider my day made.
From the interview:
“JB: Another question from Twitter was regarding the upcoming, I guess there is a Blu Ray edition of Blue Velvet, and the question was are there any special features or have you done anything different for that edition?
DL: Man oh man. You know, there is a thing called b-negative, or outtakes, or lifts, that don’t make it into the film. And in the old days, those things sat around and maybe became dangerously close to being tossed away. Then the internet comes, and people want to see deleted scenes and things like this, so those things become more and more valuable.
So, one day I looked into seeing where the lifts were because some of these scenes on their own would be beautiful to see again. So I find out that Dino, the producer, doesn’t know where they are. They’ve gone. His company went bankrupt, it was taken over by another company, and then it was sold to other companies. No one knew where they were, they were gone. So depressing.
Lately, those have been found. Somewhere up in Seattle. It’s incredible. I’m seeing stuff I thought was gone forever. And hopefully some of those scenes (some of them aren’t worth putting back together) will end up on the new Blu Ray. We did a 5.1 a while back and it was horrible. And now Dean and I did a new one and it is so thick and beautiful. It’s the mix, but it’s 5.1 killer beauty.”
Check out the video above for a reconstruction of some of the lost scenes from the previously released Special Edition DVD. Click here to listen to the entire interview.
Blue Velvet will be released on Blu-ray in France on February 16th. Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits confirms that we’ll see a North American release soon after.
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