Bob Kane’s Dark Knight flies from the pages of DC Comics to the big screen once again in Batman Begins, a box-office hit scheduled to make its way to home video on Oct. 18. The two-disc deluxe DVD edition promises to be a good one, packed with plenty of behind-the-scenes docs and a bevy of other bonus features.
Directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), Batman Begins stars Christian Bale (Equilibrium, American Psycho) as Bruce Wayne and his caped alter-ego in a story that explores the origins of the Batman legend and his emergence as a force for good in Gotham. The cast also includes Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Katie Holmes (The Gift), Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later), Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode I–The Phantom Menace), Michael Caine (Alfie), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher) and Tom Wilkinson (In The Bedroom).
The release will come packaged with Detective Comics #37, a 72-page comic book featuring the very first Batman story, Batman: The Man Who Falls, as well as Batman: The Long Halloween, a chilling excerpt that also inspired the film.
Fans can explore the DVD menu via an interactive comic book. Special features will include the making-of documentaries 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. Other extras will include a DVD ROM Batman Begins mobile game demo, Easter eggs, a photo gallery and a character/weaponry gallery.
Batman Begins raked in more than $200 million at the North American box office alone and surpassed The Matrix: Reloaded to become the highest-grossing digitally re-mastered IMAX release. To date, the film has earned $14.5 million on 72 IMAX screens worldwide.
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