The U dvd bonus features

When Dave and Billy began editing The U in Spring 2009, they knew it would be a monumental task to sandwich 20 years of football history into a 90 minute documentary.  Compromises would have to be made.

Like we do with all our projects, the film was storyboarded and assembled in scenes.  Then the scenes get laid out together, transitions are massaged, refinements are made, and ultimately entire scenes get cut. 

Scenes get cut for a variety of reasons: repetitiveness, length, deviation from pushing the story forward, etc. One of my favorite scenes that didn't make the final cut was the QB competition between Kosar and Testaverde in 1983, but there simply wasn't enough time for it.

So when The U dvd comes out August 17th, it will include a dozen deleted scenes:

The Locker Room

Schnellenberger's Pipe

QB Contest

Joe Namath 1984 Orange Bowl

Michael Irvin in the Cafeteria

Locker Room Speech

Tim Brown 1987

Discipline & Education

Tad Foote at the White House

Lamar and Irvin on the Phone

Ibis Arrest

Depth & Competition

We're also including all the player intros and three additional featurettes:

the World Premiere at the Lyric Theater
Miami City Hall screening
Randal Hill's Q&A from the University of Miami campus screening

On top of that, we cut an additional six scenes that didn't make it as bonus features on the DVD.  Starting next Tuesday and every Tuesday until the release on August 17th, we'll be posting those scenes on rakontur.com and on The U Facebook fan page.

Comments

[Khalil]

Nice! Can't wait. Thought you guys might like the free pub: http://canespundit.com/

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[reed]

does anyone know when the PRE ORDER release date will be? do not see it availabe on amazon.com like all the other espn 30 for 30 dvds.