Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced '
2012' for Blu-ray release on March 2. Roland Emmerich's hugely successful disaster movie will be available on BD in two editions: a single-disc release and a two-disc special edition (exclusive to Blu-ray) with "over 90 minutes of thrilling special features".
Bonus features for the single-disc edition include:
- Commentary with writer/director Roland Emmerich and co-writer Harald Kloser
- Picture-In-Picture: Roland's Vision-Includes Pre-Visualization, storyboards and behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with filmmakers, cast and crew
- Alternate ending
- movieIQ
- BD-Live
The two-disc special edition features the above plus:
- Music video: Adam Lambert, "Time For Miracles"
- Interactive Mayan calendar: Enter a date to reveal your horoscope and personality profile
- Featurettes:
- Designing the End of the World
- Roland Emmerich: The Master of the Modern Epic
- Science behind the Destruction
- The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
- Mysteries of the Mayan Calendar
- Countdown to the Future
- Making the music video "Time for Miracles", with Adam Lambert
- Deleted scenes
- Digital copy
Emmerich had revealed in an interview (see blu-ray.com,
November 13) that he had shot an alternate ending that was cut out because it was "too unrealistic."