20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the technical specs and special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of '
The Towering Inferno', which is due to hit store shelves on July 14. Coming on a BD-50, video will be presented in 2.40:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
This BD contains a plethora of special features. The full list follows:
- Commentary by F.X. Feeney, film historian
- Scene-specific commentary by Mike Vezina, special effects director on 'X3'
- Scene-specific commentary by Branko Racki, stunt coordinator on 'The Day After Tomorrow'
- 32 extended and deleted scenes
- Alternate opening sequence
- 10 featurettes:
- Inside the Tower: We Remember
- Innovating Tower: The SPFX of an Inferno
- The Art of Towering
- Irwin Allen: The Great Producer
- Directing the Inferno
- Putting out Fire
- Running on Fire
- Still the World's Tallest Building
- The Write Stirling Silliphant
- AMC Backstory: The Towering Inferno
- Six storyboard comparisons
- Vintage promotional materials:
- NATO presentation reel
- Two original 1974 featurettes
- Irwin Allen 1977 interview
- Trailer farm:
- 'The Towering Inferno' teaser
- 'The Towering Inferno' trailer
- 'The Poseidon Adventure' trailer
- Interactive galleries:
- American Cinematographer article
- 'The Towering Inferno' and how it was filmed
- Photographing the dramatic sequences for 'The Towering Inferno'
- “Action Unit” lives up to its name while shooting 'The Towering Inferno'
- Stills galleries:
- Shot compositions
- Publicity
- Behind the scenes
- Conceptual sketches
- Costumes