Watership Down -Blu-ray-

Product Description With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Ralph Richardson ( The Fallen Idol), Richard Briers ( Much Ado About Nothing), and Denholm Elliott ( Raiders of the Lost Ark), Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil. Additional Features BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray • New interview with director Martin Rosen • New appreciation of the film by director Guillermo del Toro • Picture-in-picture storyboard for the entire film • Defining a Style, a 2008 featurette about the film’s aesthetic • Trailer • PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones