Oliver Stones Alexander to get 2 DVD Releases

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According to DVDAnswers Warner has announced theatrical and director's cut releases of Oliver Stone's Alexander.Both will be available to own from the 2nd August this year,  each will have a 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Extra material on the theatrical edition will include

  • Commentary by Oliver Stone and historian Robin Lane Fox
  • Resurrecting Alexander documentary which explores the filming of Alexander
  • Perfect is the Enemy of God documentary that provides an in depth look at the details that go into the filming of an epic 
  • Featurette on the soundtrack.

Warner has yet to confirm the features on the director's cut. The Director's Cut runtime is 167 minutes, and the theatrical cut is 175 minutes Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great (Farrell) led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India.

This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest.

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