Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is bringing filmmaker Oliver Stone's
Alexander: The Ultimate Cut to Blu-ray via a 10th Anniversary Edition release. The most recent cut of the 2004 historical epic arrives with new special features, a 40-page art book and collectible packaging. Earlier this week, the director announced
The Ultimate Cut's street date as well: June 6th.
Synopsis:
Alexander is based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders; a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of 25. The film chronicles Alexander's path to becoming a living legend, from a youth fuelled by dreams of myth, glory and adventure, to his intense bonds with his closest companions, to his lonely death as a ruler of a vast empire.
The film stars Colin Farrell as Alexander, Angelina Jolie as Queen Olympias, Val Kilmer as King Philip II, Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy, Jared Leto as Hephaistion, Rosario Dawson as Roxana, Christopher Plummer as Aristotle, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Cassander. Stone's "Ultimate Cut" represents the director's fourth version of the film, which, at 206-minutes, is actually shorter than the previously released 213-minute
Final Cut.
Technical specifications have yet to be detailed. Special features and bonus materials include:
- Alexander: The 206-minute Ultimate Cut
- The Ultimate Cut Audio Commentary with Oliver Stone
- Alexander: The 175-minute Theatrical Version
- Theatrical Version Audio Commentary with Stone
- New Documentary: The Real Alexander and the World He Made - Learn how Alexander the Great's vision of uniting East and West helped shape our modern world, and how different our lives might have been had his empire not fractured upon his untimely death at the age of 32.
- Sean Stone's Feature-Length Documentary: Fight Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander
- And much more bonus content, to be detailed at a later date...
- "The Art of Alexander 40-page art book, featuring numerous concept drawings, production storyboards and behind-the-scenes photographs
- Collectible packaging, with correspondence memos between Oliver Stone and his cast and crew