[Korean DVD News] UK Region 2 "The Host" Up For Pre-Order

Optimum Home Entertainment will make available the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Host on March 5, 2007.

Special features on the two-disc set include:
• Making-of film with director Bong Joon-Ho (9:44)
• Deleted scenes (23:17)
• Monster Gag Reel, produced by The Orphanage (4:05)
• Audition tapes (5:31)
• The Characters (3:39)
• Storyboards (7:46)
• The creature making process: 5 sequences showing the process from animatrix to completion (16:27)
• Creature stills gallery (7:55)
• Bong Joon-Ho’s Direction (4:52)
• The Production Team (14:33)
• The Staff (5:13)
• Saying Goodbye to The Host - production team and actors talk about finishing the film (4:45)
• Memories of the sewer – talking about the difficulties of shooting inside the sewer (9.40)
• The film departments - Set design, martial arts, props, agent yellow, bones and bodies (9:00)
• Puppet animatronix (7:21)
• Designing the creature (11:07)
• Kevin’s Korean Life – Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Raffertey’s experience of Korea (6:30)
• Physical Special Effects – Interview with Assistant Director (5:07)
• Sound Effects (8:45)
• Training the actors – archery lessons, gun training etc (5:21)
• Creature animation – model-making and animation (15:59)

Pre-order DVD (£11.99, available March 5)

[Source: DVD Times]