Species (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

[asda1994]

Release date: September 11, 2017
Purchase link: Zavvi (Pre Order will be live on Saturday August 5th around 6pm UK time)
Price: £15.99

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[blu-steel]

The amaray with slip is so much better. Too bad they couldn't have used the slip art for the steelbook.

 

[TheHutt]

Someone please take Adobe Illustrator away from MGM designers.

 

[virkia]

"PG" cover for an "18" certificate film . . . although what she was grasping in her right hand which had to be airbrushed out is open to question
Continuing the trend of unsexy steelbooks (considering what maybe could have been used) which includes the upcoming EX-MACHINA and the just released live action GHOST IN THE SHELL iterations.

Very decent film with an undeniably very sexy alien - even more so than the alien in ALIEN (lol) - and with fresh artwork can't be a bad thing . . . although if going for the arty approach Id have preferred (a) reminiscent of those '50s and '60s horror film posters.
For a different approach there's always the Amaray artwork from 2006 or in (b) and (c) a couple of variants of the same:-

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There's even the ALIEN-inspired Egg imagery . . . which I suppose is hardly surprising considering the late great H.R. Giger was involved in the creature designs:-

Prefer the French title translated to THE MUTANT but I imagine that title has been used before on something else . . .

. . . and finally H.R. Giger's designs for SPECIES - https://giger.com/page.php?page=151 / http://www.littlegiger.com/articles/files/Cinefantastique_27_7.pdf

 

[paulboland]

Pre Order will be live on Saturday August 5th around 6pm UK time

 

[brothers1130]

Pre Order is live now

 

[Lollard2002]

Seriously have the studios not got the message by now. Pop art - no sale. Seriously you couldn't give that one away.....

 

[sunnyx]

Any catalogue old movie, exception of a few, you should just wait around 3 months and the price will usually drop. £15.99 is way too high. They should be £9.99. I won't be getting any of their new wave until the price drops.

 

[Lollard2002]

Any catalogue old movie, exception of a few, you should just wait around 3 months and the price will usually drop. £15.99 is way too high. They should be £9.99. I won't be getting any of their new wave until the price drops.

I wouldn't buy it if it was for free. Pop Art NO SALE. Give me proper artwork and I'll bite....... Simple and brutal as that

 

[sunnyx]

I wouldn't buy it if it was for free. Pop Art NO SALE. Give me proper artwork and I'll bite....... Simple and brutal as that

Nothing brutal about that, you don't like it you don't like it lol.

 

[virkia]

One could always make the front more interesting with this flip lenti:-

For the fan there is / there was this limited to 500 statuette of Sil which looks like it ticks most of the boxes (maybe not the face box though):-

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[adrianjturner]

is this going to have the 4k remastered disc that the US just got?

 

[ChrisIW]

I wouldn't buy it if it was for free. Pop Art NO SALE. Give me proper artwork and I'll bite....... Simple and brutal as that

My sentiments exactly. Being able to wait and buy it really cheaply is no consolation to me if it's garbage that I wouldn't want taking up shelf space anyway.

 

[Lollard2002]

Maybe it's me but if I was designing a steelbook, i would make sure i"m not going to do something that totally alienates a huge chunk of my fan base.

 

[virkia]

. . . not forgetting the original ethos of steelbooks was for creativity and for the steelbook designer to exhibit maximum artistic licence with the images allowed . . . not just to take the easy option by sticking a bunch of floating heads, a still from the film or even replicating the original poster designs every time (yawn!)
Massive demand for original artwork on home video with Arrow, Eureka, Second Sight et al going out of their way to give our shelves colourful artwork by commissioning great, original art from recognised artists such as Graham Hunphreys, Stephen Bissette, Justin Erickson, Tyler Stout, Matthew Griffin, Tom Hodge, Rick Melton, Dan Mumford, Gary Pullin, Paul Shipper, Jeff Zornow and other luminaries.

Evidently not all artwork successful (Fox set of 10 released in France and elsewhere in March of this year probably the least successful of any steelbook set I've ever seen) but I for one appreciate originality and just because this SPECIES steelbook isn't the #1 choice it's bound to be re-released in another steelbook with better content and better artwork some time further down the line.

17th Sep. 2017

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[Lollard2002]

As soon as you see the artwork it stinks. No getting away from it which is why I'm puzzled they still press ahead instead of just gong for the proper artwork from the film. I have yet to see one pop art steelbook that works. They vary between dire and awful......... No point in letting someone loose on a design for a steelbook if what they come up with insults a 3 year old......