Take That Theatrical Re Release Avatar Special Edition Dvd Will Feature Sixteen Minutes Of New Footage

Take That, Theatrical Re-Release! Avatar Special Edition DVD Will Feature Sixteen Minutes Of New Footage

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 11:54 am EST

Or, as THR reports, the special edition theatrical release this weekend may just be a nearly three-hour commercial for this new DVD release, which will hit in November with “at least 16 minutes of extra Avatar footage.”

We’ve heard from James Cameron about the extensive new material in the theatrical special edition, but Jon Landau was more concise in his conversation with THR:

We tried to look at what people have responded to in the film and give them more of that…There’s a whole new scene that takes place in the (Na’vi) school, there’s more night bioluminescence, there’s new creatures, and there is a new action scene. The scenes don’t just feel like added scenes — they are very organic to the story and embellish it.