Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will be bringing
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall, a mega-budget,
mixed-genre fantasy tale — starring Matt Damon — to market on May 23 as a
three-SKU product offering.
The ARR is 95 days and domestic ticket sales currently stand
at $44.8 million (internationally the box office haul was roughly seven times
that number).
Planned for release are a stand-alone DVD edition, a
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
200 years before Marco Polo arrived in China, a band of
European mercenaries are secretly scouting the Chinese countryside for “black
powder” (gunpowder) when they are attacked by an unknown terror. Only William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero
Tovar (Pedro Pascal) escape as the rest of their group are ripped to shreds by unknown
beasts (monsters).
Garin and Tovar manage to chop a claw from one their
attackers and keep it as a trophy of sorts, but they are soon swept up by guardians
of a magnificent great wall fortress, the purpose of which will circle back to
the pair’s beastly encounter. Quizzed
by their captors, things look bleak, but the trophy claw and Garin’s wizardry
with a bow and arrow earn them a reprieve.
The Great Wall is a fantasy film, pure and simple. Anyone who attempts to put the action into
some sort of historical context — as some mainline critics argued — is on a
fool’s errand. The film is one part “Cirque
du Soleil” (death-defying aerial stunts) and one part zombie movie (think: World
War Z … same sort of action) that is all blended together into action
epic with stunning stunts and CGI work.
Bonus features included deleted scenes and six production
featurettes — “Matt Damon in China,” “Working with Director Zhang Yimou,” “The
Great Wall Visual Effects,” “Man vs. Monster,” “Weapons of War” and “Designing
a Spectacular World.”
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