Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's international best seller is coming to US Blu-ray in its extended form.  This will be a two disc release with plenty of new extras included, plus to tie in with the forthcoming big screen release of Angels and Demons, Brown's follow-up, it will also have an exlcusive five minute section of the film complete with an introduction by Ron Howard.

Here's what we'll see in the extras section:

    * New scene-specific commentary with Ron Howard.
    * BD-Live enabled with cinechat and interactive picture-in-picture features.  These will include interviews, b-roll footage, information on props, storyboards and trivia.
    * First Day on the Set with Ron Howard featurette.
    * The Filmaker's Journey Parts I and II featurette.
    * A Discussion with Dan Brown featurette.
    * A Portrait of Langdon featurette.
    * The Codes of The Da Vinci Code featurette.
    * Who is Sophie Neveu? featurette.
    * The Music of the Da Vinci Code featurette.
    * Book to Screen featurette.
    * Magical Places featurette.
    * The Da Vinci Props featurette.
    * Close-Up on Mona Lisa featurette.
    * The Da Vinci Sets featurette.
    * Re-creating Works of Art featurette.
    * Scoring The Da Vinci Code featurette.
    * The Visual Effects World of The Da Vinci Code featurette.

Released on April 28th, this two disc release looks to be joined by a gift set listed on Amazon which in addition to the Blu-ray has an 'exclusive reproduction of the Cryptex used in the film and a copy of Langdon's journal.'

To try and clear up exactly what we're getting here, we'll do a little investigative work ourselves.  Literature provided by Sony mentions this extended cut is available for the first time and has 28 minutes of extra footage, but doesn't mention a runtime.  Amazon states a 174 minute duration.  This is important as an extended cut has been released before, just not in the US.

Europe and other regions received a gift set similar to the new Blu-ray a while back and an extended cut of the movie, with a runtime of 167 minutes, making an extra 24 minutes over the theatrical version.  Allowing for the 3 or 4 minutes PAL to NTSC conversion, it appears this Blu-ray will be an extended extended edition!  If anyone has any further information on the content of this new version, let us know in the comments below.

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