Restoring Alien: The Director's Cut

When Twentieth Century Fox approached me to digitally restore the original 1979 cut of the film, they also suggested fully restoring many of the film's deleted scenes to be reincorporated into a proposed expanded DVD version of the film. However, this is not the case with Alien: The Director's Cut.

Unlike some other films, Alien: The Director's Cut does not suggest that the filmmaker has finally overcome the interference of heavy-handed studio executives and restored the film to its original, untampered form. The traditional definition of the term 'Director's Cut' suggests the restoration of a director's original vision, free of any creative limitations.

In the case of Alien, I felt that the original cut was perfect, with a good pace and structure. Although there were several scenes left on the cutting room floor, I didn't miss any of them. This is in contrast to some other films where deleted scenes may have added depth or context to the story.

Ridley Scott, the director of Alien, has discussed the film's Director's Cut in interviews. According to Scott, the DC version is actually shorter than the theatrical version. This is surprising, as one might expect a longer cut to be more comprehensive.

I recently tried to extract bonus features from my 4K Blu-ray edition of Alien using MakeMKV and mkvtoolnix. However, I encountered some issues with the latter tool. It was unable to extract

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