Posted Tue Mar 30, 2010 at 08:00 AM PDT by Tom Landy
Prefer David Attenborough narration over Oprah Winfrey? Warner will also be issuing another option alongside 'Life (U.S. Version)' on Blu-ray this June.
BBC/Warner has announced 'Life (UK Version)' for Blu-ray on June 1.
From the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit, makers of Planet Earth and The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this is the original UK broadcast version of Life, with narration by renowned naturalist David Attenborough and music by Oscar® and Emmy® winning composer George Fenton In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as you’ve never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life. Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, with breathtaking new high definition filming techniques developed since Planet Earth, Life presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, 54 of which have never been filmed before. Packed with excitement, revelation and entertainment, this remarkable 10-part blockbuster captures unprecedented, astonishingly beautiful sequences and demonstrates the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to survive and thrive.
The 4-disc Blu-ray set appears to feature 1080p video, and the same supplements including Life on Location – A collection of ten production video diaries showing the extraordinary lengths the film crew took to capture the footage in Life, Deleted Scenes, and a "Music Only" viewing option.
Suggested list price for each Blu-ray set is 69.99.
You can find the latest specs for 'Life (U.S. Version)' & 'Life (UK Version)' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it's indexed under June 1.
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