VCI Entertainment have announced that they will release on Blu-ray director John Carpenter's
Dark Star (1974), starring Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich and Brian Narelle. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the country on October 2.
Special Features:
- Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star - Includes clips from a rare student film directed by Dan O'Bannon. Featuring exclusive interviews with actors, cast and crew. Also featuring an archival interview with John Carpenter, as well as the final interview of Dan O'Bannon. Produced and directed by Daniel Griffith (in HD).
- Interview with Sci-Fi author Alan Dean Foster (in SD).
- 3D Guide to the Dark Star ship (in SD).
- Full-length audio commentary by super fan Andrew Gilchrist.
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. Dark Star is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to seek out and destroy unstable planets ahead of the colonist. But there is one obstacle that its crew members did not count on -- one of the ship's thinking and talking bombs is lodged in the bay, threatening to destroy the entire ship and crew!
Dark Star was originally intended to be a 68 minute film. Jack Harris, the Hollywood producer, convinced the filmmakers to shoot 15 minutes of extra footage and he released the expanded version theatrically in 1975 through Bryanston Pictures.