Director Ryuhei Kitamura has announced plans to produce two new films in the Versus series- Versus Alternate Cut and Versus 2.<\/p>\n
This summer, Kitamura plans to re-assemble the cast of Versus to shoot new footage to create an alternate version of Versus that will feature a new beginning and ending, a new climatic fight, more zombie gunfight sequences, a new soundtrack, and edit out some of the very few “talky parts.” Versus Alternate Cut is not a “director’s cut” because the original version of Versus is exactly the way the director prefers it to be. Alternate Cut is more of a pet project.<\/p>\n
Versus 2 will tentatively be complete in 2004. Apparently Kitamura has to schedule Versus 2 around his work on the GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, his theatrical film of the Japanese supernatural TV drama Sky High (based on manga by Tsutomu Takahashi), and his as yet undetermined first American film for Miramax.<\/p>\n
Media Blasters will release Versus on American DVD on July 29th in three different versions: a bare-bones bilingual edition, a “Director’s Cut” edition that will include trailers and audio commentary, and a double disc special edition that will include all of the material from the Japanese DVD release.<\/p>\n
Versus has just been released in Germany on a double disc special edition<\/a> packed in a metal tin that features extensive supplemental material including Kitamura’s first movie, the 51 minute long Down to Hell, and trailers for Down to Hell and Alive.<\/p>\n