The Stepford Wives (2004) - Blu-ray Forum

MifuneFan · 03-08-2021, 04:13 PM

Paramount will be releasing The Stepford Wives (2004) on June 1st.

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dressedtokill · 03-08-2021, 04:16 PM

For a moment I thought they were releasing the original and was all excited. This one isn't as bad as they make it out to be but suffers in comparison to the original.

buck135 · 03-08-2021, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by dressedtokill

For a moment I thought they were releasing the original and was all excited. This one isn't as bad as they make it out to be but suffers in comparison.

This! I got really excited until I saw 2004. Gut punch.

drush9999 · 03-08-2021, 05:33 PM

I thought it was the original as well

OneWayFilms · 03-08-2021, 06:37 PM

I never saw the original and thought the remake with Nichole Kidman and Bette Midler must have been a loosely based spoof of the original. It was all fine up to the ending and then it just got sillier and sillier. Just about cross the line of silliness for me.

donidarko · 03-08-2021, 06:39 PM

Damn, was hoping this was the original.....

Zillamon51 · 03-08-2021, 11:41 PM

Yep, got excited for a moment there.

Matt89 · 03-08-2021, 11:45 PM

LOL the collective disappointment in this thread.

I also thought it was the original for a second.

~Matt

that1guystudios · 03-08-2021, 11:57 PM

Love this one. I know a lot of people find it terrible, but I enjoyed it.

agenda · 03-09-2021, 12:05 AM

Goddamned! I thought this would be the original. Remake is absolutely worthless in every way possible.

James Luckard · 03-09-2021, 12:43 AM

It would be AMAZING if they could include the massive amount of deleted material, they apparently shot this film multiple times over, basically. It was a much darker horror comedy originally, there were bits of this in the early trailers and there was a lot of media coverage at the time, the film was in and out of reshoots for a couple of years.

We'll never get that, but it'd be nice.

I think Paramount lost the rights to the original, it doesn't seem to be available anywhere, I think it's owned by some random company like a pharmaceutical company or something, they inherited it along with a couple of other films when they bought some other, much larger company.

James Luckard · 03-09-2021, 12:43 AM

Yep, I wasn't crazy, the original is owned by Bristol-Myers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._International

scififan73 · 03-09-2021, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by James Luckard

Yep, I wasn't crazy, the original is owned by Bristol-Myers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._International

Jeez, guess that means that Dawn of the Dead held up by Rubenstein or the Abyss by Cameron are child' s play in comparison in terms of eventually being released in North America ?

cakefactory · 03-09-2021, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by James Luckard

Yep, I wasn't crazy, the original is owned by Bristol-Myers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._International

I'm confused as to how this movie seems written off in terms of availability, but some others on this list have blu-ray releases in this country. I figured it was a situation like that dude with Invaders from Mars '53 or that lady with It Conquered the World where none of their stuff is getting released unless they die. :P

disco1979 · 03-09-2021, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by James Luckard

It would be AMAZING if they could include the massive amount of deleted material, they apparently shot this film multiple times over, basically. It was a much darker horror comedy originally, there were bits of this in the early trailers and there was a lot of media coverage at the time, the film was in and out of reshoots for a couple of years.

We'll never get that, but it'd be nice.

I think Paramount lost the rights to the original, it doesn't seem to be available anywhere, I think it's owned by some random company like a pharmaceutical company or something, they inherited it along with a couple of other films when they bought some other, much larger company.

Why does this seem in keeping with the creepiness of the original film? Poor Joanna - still trapped.

I agree with you about the 2004 version. What we got seemed like a movie that had been passed through several committees. Even just to have workprints or deleted footage would be great.

emmet otter · 03-09-2021, 09:31 PM

Amazing news recently, Magdalena, Sphinx and The Stepford Wives! AMAZING!!!.......wait......this is not the........pffft damn.....not the 75' original.......*leaves thread!

James Luckard · 03-09-2021, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by disco1979

Why does this seem in keeping with the creepiness of the original film? Poor Joanna - still trapped.

I agree with you about the 2004 version. What we got seemed like a movie that had been passed through several committees. Even just to have workprints or deleted footage would be great.

Yep, it was VERY clear the studio mandated a reshot happy ending and ordered all the darkness to be toned down.

In the original teasers is was obvious that

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, like in the original. It was clear in the trailers that Bette Midler was

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, and the trailers also had footage from a restaging of the original ending, showing that

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Instead, we got a neutered ending where

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Sigh.

James Luckard · 03-09-2021, 10:56 PM

On a different note, this film has one of the GREATEST scores of the 2000s, from James Bond composer David Arnold, which is completely unknown, simply because nobody saw the film:

He's clearly in full Danny Elfman mode, it was suggested that the film was temp-tracked with Elfman cues, but Arnold still brings his own brilliance to it.

James Luckard · 03-09-2021, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by cakefactory

I'm confused as to how this movie seems written off in terms of availability, but some others on this list have blu-ray releases in this country. I figured it was a situation like that dude with Invaders from Mars '53 or that lady with It Conquered the World where none of their stuff is getting released unless they die. :P

I think it might be that some of the other films are co-productions that Bristol-Myers doesn't own 100%, as a result.

Sleuth is in the same boat as The Stepford Wives. Locked in a vault somewhere, along with various pharmaceutical patents, presumably.

scififan73 · 03-09-2021, 11:43 PM

With regard to the original classic, all i want to know is how the hell did this situation happen ? Was Paramount literally just too cheap to renew a copyright license and that's how a drug company got this ?

03-08-2021, 04:13 PM	#1
MifuneFan Blu-ray Emperor Top contributor Member since:Mar 2012 Location:New York City 4K collection:27 Blu-ray collection:1143 Trading Score:69	The Stepford Wives (2004) Paramount will be releasing The Stepford Wives (2004) on June 1st. Source

03-08-2021, 04:16 PM	#2
dressedtokill Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jul 2011 4K collection:98 Blu-ray collection:421 Trading Score:1	For a moment I thought they were releasing the original and was all excited. This one isn't as bad as they make it out to be but suffers in comparison to the original. Last edited by dressedtokill; 03-08-2021 at 04:56 PM.

03-08-2021, 05:33 PM	#4
drush9999 Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Nov 2016 Location:Sutton Coldfield, England 4K collection:566 Blu-ray collection:6092 DVD collection:488 Trading Score:1	I thought it was the original as well

03-08-2021, 06:37 PM	#5
OneWayFilms Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Mar 2010 Location:Mississippi 4K collection:13 Blu-ray collection:967 DVD collection:759 Digital collection:457 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews:5	I never saw the original and thought the remake with Nichole Kidman and Bette Midler must have been a loosely based spoof of the original. It was all fine up to the ending and then it just got sillier and sillier. Just about cross the line of silliness for me.

03-08-2021, 06:39 PM	#6
donidarko Special Member Top contributor Member since:Aug 2012 Location:Fleetwood, NY 4K collection:128 Blu-ray collection:1032 DVD collection:134 Digital collection:95 Prime collection:76	Damn, was hoping this was the original.....

03-08-2021, 11:41 PM	#7
Zillamon51 Banned Top contributor Member since:Oct 2013 Location:S.E. Michigan 4K collection:374 Blu-ray collection:2062 DVD collection:664 Digital collection:929 Trading Score:11	Yep, got excited for a moment there.

03-08-2021, 11:45 PM	#8
Matt89 Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Toronto 4K collection:336 Blu-ray collection:361 iTunes collection:48 Trading Score:2	LOL the collective disappointment in this thread. I also thought it was the original for a second. ~Matt

03-08-2021, 11:57 PM	#9
that1guystudios 3D Moderator Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place... 4K collection:289 Blu-ray collection:1219 DVD collection:223 MA collection:1219 Digital collection:343 iTunes collection:145 Blu-ray reviews: 30 Trading Score:117	Love this one. I know a lot of people find it terrible, but I enjoyed it.

03-09-2021, 12:05 AM	#10
agenda Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jun 2018	Goddamned! I thought this would be the original. Remake is absolutely worthless in every way possible.

03-09-2021, 12:43 AM	#11
James Luckard Blu-ray Count Top contributor Member since:Jan 2011 Location:Los Angeles, CA 4K collection:397 Blu-ray collection:1805 Blu-ray reviews: 34	It would be AMAZING if they could include the massive amount of deleted material, they apparently shot this film multiple times over, basically. It was a much darker horror comedy originally, there were bits of this in the early trailers and there was a lot of media coverage at the time, the film was in and out of reshoots for a couple of years. We'll never get that, but it'd be nice. I think Paramount lost the rights to the original, it doesn't seem to be available anywhere, I think it's owned by some random company like a pharmaceutical company or something, they inherited it along with a couple of other films when they bought some other, much larger company.

03-09-2021, 09:31 PM	#16
emmet otter Special Member Member since:Mar 2016 Location:Frogtown Hollow, NJ	Amazing news recently, Magdalena, Sphinx and The Stepford Wives! AMAZING!!!.......wait......this is not the........pffft damn.....not the 75' original.......*leaves thread!

03-09-2021, 11:43 PM	#20
scififan73 Senior Member Member since:Apr 2013 Location:windsor,ontario canada	With regard to the original classic, all i want to know is how the hell did this situation happen ? Was Paramount literally just too cheap to renew a copyright license and that's how a drug company got this ?

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