Will there be a blooper reel on the DVD?
“Not a lot of bloopers, per se. The majority of things on the DVD are a few scenes that we didn’t use, one of which was a big airplane crash at the beginning of the movie that got cut out that was pretty dynamic that we completely finished. And a few other scenes with Dirk and Al, a couple comedic scenes. But I didn’t do a blooper reel for the DVD.
You know, it’s so intense, everyone’s so focused because of the danger of everything, there’s a real intensity on the set and there wasn’t a lot of room for too many bloopers. There were some. Believe me, we had blooper moments, but I couldn’t fit it onto the DVD.
It’s funny because by the time you put the movie on - and I wanted to master the movie in the highest quality - and then put the documentary features on which were really great, and then the commentaries and the multiple language tracks and the storyboard comparisons – I had no room left on the DVD. It is packed full. Every minute, every second they would give me on that is full. I even got Paramount to cut down the amount of trailer time they put in the beginning so they could fit more material on to the DVD.”
A lot of films are released later on with a director’s cut. Will that ever happen with “Sahara?”
“The cut that came out is the director’s cut. I don’t want to or need to change the cut of the movie from the theater to the DVD. The only difference is there are scenes that I took out for length, that are, because I think the movie runs at the right length – I wouldn’t want it to be any longer but the additional scenes – and there are some additional scenes that would have made the movie too long but on their own stand up.”
What’s your opinion, in general, of director’s cuts?
“My hope is that these original cuts don’t get lost and the director’s cuts are supplements to the other cuts. And I think when that’s the case, it’s a great way to see what was in the director’s mind, independent of the studios and the producers and the time constraints of the theaters. I think it has really interesting potential for exploitation on DVD.”
