Unhappy with the quality/quantity of the extras for The Fountain DVD, Darren Aronofsky has decided to release a downloadable commentary track in the near future. From Cinematical and Aronofsky’s Myspace blog:
“As many of you can tell it [the DVD] is light on extras as compared to my previous DVD releases. Everything at the studio was a struggle. For instance, they didn’t want to do a commentary track cause they felt it wouldn’t help sales. I didn’t have it in me to fight anymore. Whatever.”
Seems to be the nucleus of an excellent social-networking idea here—fans, critics and directors/artists themselves upload “extras” for download via a site based on the film. The “extras” could be in a freely-exchangeable/interchangeable (XML?) format, mashable via other applications/sites.
FREE IDEA How about producing an online application (or even disc-based, given the capabilities of Blu-Ray/HD DVD) that would 1. Load the movie 2. allow the viewer to select/load alt. commentary tracks (or other extras) from the aforementioned web site. Netflix has taken some steps in that direction, and alt. commentary tracks have been done before, but nobody has embraced a truly interactive, user/fan friendly model.
Related: Check out Flak Magazine’s downloadable commentary for David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
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