Michael Rennie , stoic actor and first to don the silver spaceman duds in the 1951 classic The Day The Earth Stood Still , has left Neo some mighty big quad boots to fill . Do n’t take our word for it — just check out this sole clip from one of the featurettes from the new TDTESS DVD re - release , and find out what went into making Rennie the unequivocal Klaatu .
Original director Lewis Gilbert talk over how Rennie ’s seriousness and creepy - yet - handsome appeal made him the most compelling role player for this use .
Check out that icy demeanor , it may have suppose “ cool ” in the script but Rennie is parky . I ca n’t even suppose what it must have been like to see this sort of motion-picture show in the 50s . I would have seriously wet myself . No wonder the reboot is all CG destruction and havoc in the trailers , they have to live up to Rennie and just the absolute shock that was seeing a space ship land on the Earth before it was done one million fourth dimension after the first TDTESS . The re - release of TDTESS both on Blu Ray and on videodisk are out tomorrow , December 2 .
Features On The Special Edition BD Release Include :
• New : Exclusive First Look At The New Movie The Day The Earth Stood Still Starring
Keanu Reeves And Jennifer Connelly
• New & Exclusive To BD : Interactive Theremin : Create Your Own musical score
• New & Exclusive To BD : Gort Command ! : synergistic biz
• Commentary by Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer
• New : Commentary by Film & Music Historians John Morgan , Steven Smith , William Stromberg
and Nick Redman
• New : Isolated Score Track
• New : The Mysterious , Melodious Theremin
• New : The twenty-four hour period The Earth Stood Still Main Title lively carrying out By Peter Pringle
• New : The qualification of The Day the Earth Stood Still
• New : Decoding “ Klaatu Barada Nikto ” : Science Fiction as Metaphor Featurette
• New : A abbreviated History of Flying Saucers Featurette
• New : The Astounding Harry Bates Featurette
• New : Edmund North : The Man Who Made the Earth Stand Still Featurette
• New To Disc : backwash To limbo : A Documentary Short Written And Produced By Edmund North
• New To Disc : word of farewell To The Master : A meter reading By Jamieson K. Price Of The Original
Harry Bates Short Story ; Audio Only
• novel : Interactive Pressbook
• Fox Movietonews from 1951
• Original Theatrical Trailer & Teaser Trailer
• Advertising Gallery
• Behind - The Scenes Gallery
• Portrait picture gallery
• Production picture gallery
• Spaceship Construction Blueprints
• Shooting Scrip
While the Gort shooting plot sounds like sport I ’m probably going to purchase this just for the A Brief History of Flying Saucers .
The Day The Earth Stood Still remake opens next week on December 12th .
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