Warner Home Video has announced that BATMAN BEGINS will released on DVD Oct. 18 in both a single-disc ($28.98) and two-disc Deluxe Edition ($30.97), with the movie in anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) and English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, DIGITAL BITS reports. The Chris Nolan-directed feature, which set an IMAX record for 2D DMR presentation, boasts vfx from The Moving Picture Co., Double Negative, Rising Sun, BUF and The Senate Visual Effects Ltd.
Extras on the Deluxe Edition include: eight docs (Genesis of the Bat: Batman Incarnations from the Mid-1980s to the Present, The Journey Begins: Creative Concepts, Story Development and Casting, Shaping Mind and Body: Fighting Style, Gotham City Rises: Production Design, Cape and Cowl: The New Batsuit, The Tumbler: The New Batmobile, Path to Discovery: Filming in Iceland and Saving Gotham City: The Monorail Chase Sequence), several Confidential Files featurettes (divided between Characters and Weaponry), an interactive Inner Demons comic, theatrical trailers, a photo gallery, Easter eggs and DVD-ROM features (including a BATMAN BEGINS "mobile game demo"). The set will also include an exclusive 72-page comic containing three reprinted issues/stories that influenced the film (including Detective Comics #37, BATMAN: THE MAN WHO FALLS and BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN). No word yet on audio commentary.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
