The DVD Cover Rises From The Ashes

A big thanks to Justin S. who scanned his album artwork for me. I've been a pig in mud for a few hours re-working the album art into a DVD cover. Below are the front and back covers so far.

I would really love to put some other images on the back but I'm trying to stay true to the original VHS art. So many of those shady VHS or Laserdisc rip DVDs out there have crummy cover art. Note that I have not squashed the artwork to make it fit the DVD cover size, so the robot doesn't look super-model skinny :-)

The text reads:

“METROPOLIS” is a spectacular instance of Expressionist design, with moments of incredible beauty and power, absurd ineptitudes, and other oddities that defy analysis.” -The New Yorker

World-renowned Oscar winning producer and composer GIORGIO MORODER (FLASHDANCE) has captured the essence of Fritz Lang’s legendary futuristic masterpiece, METROPOLIS, in his brilliant re-creation of the 1926 silent film classic vision of tomorrow. Using his award-winning musical expertise, MORODER has composed an electrifying soundtrack to match the film’s visionary style, performed by some of today’s top rock artists, including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Loverboy, Adam Ant and more.

This immense science fiction epic is a bizarre vision of the future. The year is 2026 and the inhabitants of the world are divided into two classes: an elite “ruling” class who spend their time in futile pursuits, living in luxury on the planet’s surface, and the working class, who toil below ground, doomed to serve from birth to death as slaves to the monstrous machines they tend. When the son of the ruler of the great city of METROPOLIS fails in love with a woman of the lower class, the stage is set for an earthshaking confrontation.

This revitalized METROPOLIS has all the immediacy and excitement of the original with the added impact of GIORGIO MORODER’S vibrant soundtrack, surging new power into some of the most striking and moving images ever put to film.