The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Steelbook Limited Edition Blu-ray

[Shaka Zulu]

Yes, Buckaroo Banzai's finally coming to Blu-Ray in North America (and the rest of Region 1, I presume) in a new deluxe edition with all of the bell and whistles.

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Steelbook
Limited Edition Blu-ray

I plan to get mine-anybody else game?

(Apologies if this info was already posted.)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Pity the product page doesn't say what special features it has.

What happened to Kevin Smith's attempt to make a sequel? Is it dead in the water?

 

[ChasFink]

Will it have NUON?

 

[Tosk]

Buckaroo Banzai has been on North American Blu-ray for two years already, this is a steelbook re-release.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Pity the product page doesn't say what special features it has.

Presumably, the special features will be new ones, or just most of the old ones with new ones also put in.

What happened to Kevin Smith's attempt to make a sequel? Is it dead in the water?

I have no idea, nor did I even know he was doing a sequel. But IMHO, I don't think a sequel would even work now, as everybody concerned's either dead or way too old (and what would happen in this new movie? Would the current Hong Kong Cavaliers be the sons [and daughters] of the original?) Heck, did Buckaroo even rescue Penny Priddy from being killed by Hanoi Xan, settle her down in a safe place (exactly why his similar counterpart never got married as far as we know) and have a child?

Personally, I think that a reboot would be better, this time with the deaths of Banzai's parents included in the movie as a prologue, or as a flashback sequence. And I even have the actor picked out.

Will it have NUON?

I doubt it-it didn't work as a system, and was barely even released, IIRC, with not a lot of players out Also, even if NUON was remade and re-released for a second-go around, it'd be outclassed by Blu-Ray, 4K DVD, and streaming.

Buckaroo Banzai has been on North American Blu-ray for two years already, this is a steelbook re-release.

As I said, all apologies if said info's old news; this is the first time I'd ever heard of a steelbook release of this movie on Blu-Ray (and I though that the Blu-Ray was only a foreign release.)

 

[Mr. Adventure]

While any love for Buckaroo Banzai is great I've never really grokked the whole steelbook thing. They're hard to store or put on a shelf, do people put them on little displays or ???.

 

[ChasFink]

I doubt it-it didn't work as a system, and was barely even released, IIRC, with not a lot of players out Also, even if NUON was remade and re-released for a second-go around, it'd be outclassed by Blu-Ray, 4K DVD, and streaming.

I was joking. Only four movies were ever released with NUON extras, and this was one of them. I doubt there were many compatible players sold at all.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I have no idea, nor did I even know he was doing a sequel. But IMHO, I don't think a sequel would even work now, as everybody concerned's either dead or way too old (and what would happen in this new movie? Would the current Hong Kong Cavaliers be the sons [and daughters] of the original?) Heck, did Buckaroo even rescue Penny Priddy from being killed by Hanoi Xan, settle her down in a safe place (exactly why his similar counterpart never got married as far as we know) and have a child?

Of the main cast, I believe only Vincent Schiavelli and Rosalind Cash are dead. While I'm saddened by their loss, their absence wouldn't be too big in any potential sequel.

As for the rest of the cast being "too old," that's just silly. If anything, that would make the sequel all the more interesting because we'd be able to check in on the world several decades later in a nature way. Perhaps Buckaroo is retired and then things go wrong and they have to round up the old gang again.

I'm not actually a fan of Kevin Smith but I admired his sincere excitement in developing a sequel so I was willing to check it out. However, I took a look at Wikipedia and it turns out he walked away from the project (which was actually a TV series) after MGM sued the original creators because apparently the issue of ownership is messy at the moment.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ and Jeff Goldblum is at peak geek chic right now. I hadn't even thought about getting the cast back together but that would be pretty great. Ellen Barkin would be quite a bad-ass Penny Priddy now lol.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

^ and Jeff Goldblum is at peak geek chic right now. I hadn't even thought about getting the cast back together but that would be pretty great. Ellen Barkin would be quite a bad-ass Penny Priddy now lol.

And let's face it. more Jeff Goldblum is always a good thing.

 

[Aragorn]

Shout Factory's been releasing a lot of steelbooks lately -- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Escape from New York, They Live, Fargo, Army of Darkness, Lifeforce, Assault on Precinct 13, Transformers: The Movie, etc. If Shout Factory specifically has already released it before on Blu-ray, the steelbook is a repackaging of that edition.

 

[JD]

Of the main cast, I believe only Vincent Schiavelli and Rosalind Cash are dead. While I'm saddened by their loss, their absence wouldn't be too big in any potential sequel.

As for the rest of the cast being "too old," that's just silly. If anything, that would make the sequel all the more interesting because we'd be able to check in on the world several decades later in a nature way. Perhaps Buckaroo is retired and then things go wrong and they have to round up the old gang again.

There have been a ton of movies and TV shows revisiting characters decades after we saw them last, and I really see no reason why they couldn't do that with the Buckaroo Banzai cast.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Of the main cast, I believe only Vincent Schiavelli and Rosalind Cash are dead. While I'm saddened by their loss, their absence wouldn't be too big in any potential sequel.

As for the rest of the cast being "too old," that's just silly. If anything, that would make the sequel all the more interesting because we'd be able to check in on the world several decades later in a nature way. Perhaps Buckaroo is retired and then things go wrong and they have to round up the old gang again.

I'm not actually a fan of Kevin Smith but I admired his sincere excitement in developing a sequel so I was willing to check it out. However, I took a look at Wikipedia and it turns out he walked away from the project (which was actually a TV series) after MGM sued the original creators because apparently the issue of ownership is messy at the moment.

I stand corrected and properly scolded, then. But I'm still uneasy about Weller & the gang coming back.

And I though that the ownership was settled a long time ago-what is this bullshit about?

While any love for Buckaroo Banzai is great I've never really grokked the whole Steelbook thing. They're hard to store or put on a shelf, do people put them on little displays or ???.

I put them up in bookcases just fine.