Choose Your Own "Final Destination" Adventure!
New Line Home Entertainment has announced they're bringing a new level of interactivity to DVD, with the release of a "Final Destination 3" edition that allows you to pick the fates of its doomed characters!
Going beyond the novelties of behind-the-scenes clips, interactive games, and even those highly entertaining audition tapes that have comprised many a DVD "special feature" list till now (although that Cindi Lauper music video on the "Goonies" DVD was groundbreaking), New Line is breaking new ground with the 2-disc "Thrill Ride" edition of "Final Destination 3," which will hit stores July 25.
During production on the film, the sneaky filmmakers shot entirely new scenes exclusively for this interactive DVD, so home viewers will get to choose, and then watch, their characters make choices entirely different from the theatrical version.
If this venture proves successful (and really, doesn't it sound cool?), New Line plans on creating more super-interactive DVD versions, with other home video outlets sure to follow.
From Variety: "The "Thrill Ride" edition gives viewers seven choices at 10-minute intervals. Among the choices that pop up onscreen: "Should Wendy take another look?" and "Map" or "No Map." Viewers can also opt to see the theatrical version of the movie.
Once helmer-scribe Jim Wong wrote 25 new script pages, it was just a matter of getting the requisite budget approvals for the extra costs, which New Line pegs between $700,000 and $1 million. Pic's budget was just under $30 million."
Going beyond the novelties of behind-the-scenes clips, interactive games, and even those highly entertaining audition tapes that have comprised many a DVD "special feature" list till now (although that Cindi Lauper music video on the "Goonies" DVD was groundbreaking), New Line is breaking new ground with the 2-disc "Thrill Ride" edition of "Final Destination 3," which will hit stores July 25.
During production on the film, the sneaky filmmakers shot entirely new scenes exclusively for this interactive DVD, so home viewers will get to choose, and then watch, their characters make choices entirely different from the theatrical version.
If this venture proves successful (and really, doesn't it sound cool?), New Line plans on creating more super-interactive DVD versions, with other home video outlets sure to follow.
From Variety: "The "Thrill Ride" edition gives viewers seven choices at 10-minute intervals. Among the choices that pop up onscreen: "Should Wendy take another look?" and "Map" or "No Map." Viewers can also opt to see the theatrical version of the movie.
Once helmer-scribe Jim Wong wrote 25 new script pages, it was just a matter of getting the requisite budget approvals for the extra costs, which New Line pegs between $700,000 and $1 million. Pic's budget was just under $30 million."
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on Apr 04 2006 02:08 PM It sounds awesome (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 04 2006 03:00 PM Now thats a good idea. Not a big fan of the final destination movies, but this sounds cool to me. It's good someone is trying to come out with new and original ideas. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Apr 04 2006 03:00 PM I'm SO buying this! (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 04 2006 05:33 PM Doesn't this sound like that episode of Futurama where they're watching All My Circuits: The Movie.....if you want Calculon to race to the special effects warehouse, press 1, if you want him to recheck his paperwork, press 2. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Apr 04 2006 07:42 PM this is just like those "choose your own adventure" books I read as a child (hence the title here) ...but sounds like it could be fun. I'd like to see it done for an adventure/mystery title though. (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 04 2006 10:44 PM yay! a birthday present for myself! lol. i love the FD movies...so this'll be a treat! (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 04 2006 11:17 PM Well, this ought to boost up FD3 DVD sales. (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 05 2006 07:45 AM Bet you anything if this becomes a trend, studios start suing. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Apr 05 2006 08:11 AM I haven't seen any of the movies, but the DVD sounds like fun. (Reply to this) |
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on Apr 05 2006 04:51 PM Kick Ass! (Reply to this) |
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