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BD-Live Game Changer: Christopher Nolan
December 1, 2008

Warner Home Video has hinted today that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan will be participating in an upcoming exclusive BD-Live experience. The studio is calling it a 'Live Community Screening,' and gives few details beyond the fact that Nolan is doing it at some point. But Warner is promising 'fan interaction' in a press release out today, which should generate definite swooning among Dark Knight's many fanboys/girls.
Universal's Hellboy II was the first Blu-ray title to deliver an exclusive real-time experience with a director. But Dark Knight seems to present an improvement upon that, with this expectation of a live video screening with director communication.  Hellboy II's BD-Live chat was done entirely in text, so director Guillermo del Toro wasn't able to elaborate why this scene or that scene was his favorite. 
In contrast, hopefully Nolan will be able to give a live director commentary as the movie rolls. That potentially seems a lot more dynamic than a straight chat.
The Dark Knight disc could very well hit near 1 million units sold on Blu-ray in its first week, as Warner is expected to ship about that amount for its next Tuesday bow. If that figure holds, than Nolan's BD-Live event would be the best attended Blu-ray Web activity yet, whatever material he ends up delivering

Posted by Susanne Ault on December 1, 2008 | Comments (0)