Friday, April 30, 2010

Legion DVD/Blu-Ray Specs' Announced

Legion will move to DVD and Blu-Ray formats May 11th and this release have a total of four featurettes. The first, entitled "Creating the Apocalypse" will show the work involved in building physical effects, while "Humanity's Last Line of Defense" will highlight the cast and characters from the film. Not to be forgotten "From Pixels to Picture" will show how the hundreds of visual effects were created; "Bringing Angels to Earth" shall only be available on the Blu-Ray copy and involves a picture in picture feature. Also only on the Blu-Ray is BD-Live which allows viewers to connect with info' on the film e.g. music, triva via the push of a button. Both discs will be provided in Dolby Surround Sound and widescreen versions.

The synopsis for Legion here:

"At a remote desert truck stop, the fate of the world will be decided. Evil's armies are amassing. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael, a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion" (Movieweb).

Release Date: May 11th.

Director: Scott Stewart.

Writers: Peter Schink, and Scott Stewart.

Cast: Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Arianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Kevin Durand, Jon Tenney, Willa Holland, Kate Walsh, Dennis Quaid, and Jeanette Miller.



The full array of DVD extras:

-Creating the Apocalypse - Behind the Physical Effects
-Humanity's Last Line of Defense - The Cast and Characters
-From Pixels to Picture - A Look at the Visual Effects
-Bringing Angels to Earth: Picture-in-Picture (Blu-ray only)
-MovieIQ +sync and BD-Live connect you to real-time information on the cast, music, trivia and more while watching the movie! (Blu-ray only)

Sources:

Legion at Movie Web

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1 comments:

Rollo Tomasi said...

Legion sucked man, except for the angel battle at the end. Extremely weak movie, cornier than The Book of Eli.