They Live Special Edition from Shout! Factory

Production now underway for extensive and insightful bonus features that include all-new interviews, an audio commentary and archival material. We will announce in-depth bonus features and additional news in the next couple months.

Originally Posted by KBMAN 

just wondering why they couldn't release this for the Halloween season......would make for good, if not great sales....

Capone: They have a nice new digital print of it (The Thing) to play on the first night of the convention. But before I dive into that, I just heard yesterday that THEY LIVE is finally coming out on Blu-ray in November?

JC: Yep.

Capone: Have you done anything new for that release?

JC: Yeah, I did a little on-camera stuff, but it’s not very extensive. I think everybody did something.

Capone: All of the people in the film?

JC: I think so. I’m not really sure, but yeah.

Capone: Okay, but we actually can say there is new material on the Blu-ray.

JC: Yeah, there’s new stuff. It’s no ****ing good, but it’s new.

[Both Laugh]

Capone: At the end of the day, maybe there’s no difference. Did they do anything in terms of restoring it at all?

JC: Dude, you’re asking me a question I have no answer for. So it’s high def now, okay. I don’t know what else they have done.

Capone: I just took a shot in the dark that you might know.

JC: Hey, that’s okay. You would think the director might know, but no. [Laughs]

Capone: I have a feeling a lot of my questions are going to be shots in the dark here.

JC: Hey, go ahead. No problem.

Capone: Whenever I talk to George Romero, I always love digging into the social messages of his films. I don’t think he would make a film unless he could insert a message or two about what was pissing him off at the time. When you were making some of your earlier work, did you attempt to pepper into your films an expression of what you saw as society’s ills or other things that were on your mind?

JC: Not quite as much as George. He really worked that. I was a little bit less than that. I mean, THEY LIVE is an obvious example of something that I considered society’s ill. I was angry about the Reagan Revolution, so it was a scream in the dark, but not so much some of the early ones. They were pretty much straight-forward, take the drama as it is, take the story as it is.