This Four-Disc Platinum Series Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's stunning, Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers features 40 minutes of extra footage woven into the theatrical release of the film and new music by Howard Shore. The movie is presented on two DVDs in Widescreen (2.35:1) format with Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound, and Stereo Surround Sound. Discs 1 and 2 titled, "The Feature", include the film itself along with four audio commentaries from Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Awardr winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook.and many more. The remaining discs are titled, "The Appendices". These two discs contain hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Disc 3 includes features on adapting the book into a screenplay, planning the film, design and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth, storyboards to pre-visualization, a Weta Workshop visit, an Atlas of Middle-earth, an interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process, galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists, and much more! Disc 4 consists of sending actors to battle-preparation for sword fighting, Principal photography: Stories from the set, digital effects including motion capture and "Massive" (a program to create armies of Orcs), "Bigatures"-A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film, galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos, post-production, sound design demonstration, and much more! PG-13.

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