'Build' your dream steelbook

[R1s1ngs0n]

Following @Fortis93's post in the Indy topic, I thought it could be fun digging up and post artworks we would love to see being used for movies that got lackluster/plain looking steelbooks or none at all.

For an extra challenge, try finding art for each side of the steel (front & back).

 

Some of my prime candidates for your consideration:

A Clockwork Orange

Batman

Batman Returns

Dirty Harry 

Goodfellas

Jaws

Scarface

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The Shining

The Silence Of The Lambs

Zodiac 

 

 

[Fortis93]

Really cool idea for a thread.

 

These are ideas for custom steelbooks I've wanted to have designed (with some minor alterations like text removal, slight colour alterations, etc.):

 

For something like Jaws (BACK - FRONT):

 

    

 

For something like Dirty Harry (BACK - FRONT):

 

         

 

I have one for Sorcerer as well (BACK - FRONT):

 

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[Veum]

 🤠 I have always wanted The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Swedish trilogy as a Premium with WEA steels And beautiful Lentis!❣️🙏 🙋‍♂️

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

[R1s1ngs0n]

1 minute ago, Veum said:

 🤠 I have always wanted The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Swedish trilogy as a Premium with WEA steels And beautiful Lentis!❣️🙏 🙋‍♂️

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

Not bad, but I'm sure there are alternative artist illustrations, rather than official posters, that would make even cooler covers.

That one for instance, for the front

 

Back

[R1s1ngs0n]

It pains me that a masterpiece like Zodiac is so lacking in the artwork department.

Best I could find...

 

Front

 

Back

[Gary K]

I've actually designed a bunch and commissioned them as custom steels.

Here are a couple:

 

Decision to leave:

 

  

 

Thirst

Front:

back

 

Caddyshack:

 

All The Colors of the Dark

 

 

[R1s1ngs0n]

3 minutes ago, Gary K said:

I've actually designed a bunch and commissioned them as custom steels.

Here are a couple:

 

Decision to leave:

 

  

 

Love this one!

[Veum]

54 minutes ago, R1s1ngs0n said:

Not bad, but I'm sure there are alternative artist illustrations, rather than official posters, that would make even cooler covers.

That one for instance, for the front

 

Back

 

I would like to have these  landscapes incorporated on the inside also! 

 

 

 

 

 

This would also be nice for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) version❣️

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Inside 

 

 

 

[Veum]

 🤠 here is another film I’d like to see get the Premium treatment Night of Dark Shadows! 😱 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

 

Or

 

 

Inside

 

 

Or

 

[Veum]

 🤠 My fav Western of all-time needs that Premium treatment pronto! 🎬 

 

Front

 

 

Back

 

 

Inside

 

[ethnosax]

Some from me that I would like to see become reality—either movies that haven't had a steel at all, or that haven't had a really good one yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ethnosax]

I'd also like Zavvi to finish off the Shyamalan steels for The Good (or at least decent) Shyamalans, to match the steels they did once upon a time for Sixth Sense/Unbreakable/Signs.

 

 

[Fortis93]

1 hour ago, ethnosax said:

 

If Kino Lorber ever released a steelbook for this movie, it would probably look like that.

 

And I would buy it.

[Squeegie McGee]

This is a cool idea for a thread! For me it would be for the movie Rounders. Best poker movie of all time!

 

[Casiusco]

Some dreamed suggestions for lovely steelbooks. Obvisouly, subjective. In my case I love BS that shows something essential in the movie, nice and representative, without making spoilers. In a certain minimalist way, but equally profound; that turns the steelbook (or the cover of any edition) into something beautiful and elegant that is worth seeing in your living room, that awakens in you the desire to pick it up with your hands,

 

 

1. Blade Runner. I love this BS/poster, not easy to be found. I want a steelbook like this. No front tittle is needed, all the impage express all we need to know about de film, where you can find more and more details. 

 

 

2. La dolce vita. A perfect, modern, representative and elegand design.

 

 

3. In the mood for love. Cannes Festival has some minimal but beautiful posters that I would be able to touch in a steelbook, changing the reference to the festival for the film title.

 

 

4. L'Avventura. Another Cannes Festival poster that I would like so much to have it as a Steelbook BS. The poster is too expensive to be bought at least by me. Again, changing the reference to the festival for the film title. Even so, "L'Aventura" and following, "by Antonioni".

 

 

5. Blue velvet. I have found some similar ones, but something is missing.... I would love to have this BS as steelbook, deleting the prizes.

 

 

6. One from the heart. This BS is not new, but I love it, and I've never found it as steelbook. The 4K master is ready to be distributed soon, I hope any retailer do a collector or special edition using this BS.

 

 

7. The Irishman. A classic designed steelbook for a "new" classic movie. It remember me some seventies BS movies.

 

 

8. The Usual Suspects. One of the most underrated films in the last 30 years, and with less options to have a special edition. A collectors edition opportunity waiting to be found.

 

 

 

 

[Casiusco]

10 hours ago, ethnosax said:

Some from me that I would like to see become reality—either movies that haven't had a steel at all, or that haven't had a really good one yet.

 

 

 

We have an old GB only for the slip with this design....

 

 

[ethnosax]

15 minutes ago, Casiusco said:

 

We have an old GB only for the slip with this design....

 

 

...and the person who started that GB has refused to respond to questions about its progress for years. It's a dead project, but he won't even stop by to say that much and close the GB.

 

Your La Dolce Vita poster was the cover of the Criterion blu-ray several years ago. It needs a 4K Criterion, with slipcover, and they can definitely keep using that cover. Beautiful!

[Casiusco]

6 minutes ago, ethnosax said:

 

 

Your La Dolce Vita poster was the cover of the Criterion blu-ray several years ago. It needs a 4K Criterion, with slipcover, and they can definitely keep using that cover. Beautiful!

 

I didn't know!!! Thank you  

[Fortis93]

19 hours ago, Fortis93 said:

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I played around with this one:

 

 

 

[Veum]

 🤠 🎬 a couple of fav Westerns of mine needs a Premium treatment is…

 

Hang ‘Em High

 

Front

 

 

Inside

 

 

 

Back

 

 

Tombstone

 

Front

 

 

Inside

 

 

Back

 

[Squeegie McGee]

Here's another one which I would love to have as a steelbook: 

 

Absolutely! 

 

Mmmm... yeah....that would be great mmkay?

Edited October 12, 2023 by Squeegie McGee

[hansreinhardt]

Well this one is probably going to be controversial, but I have always been partial to the posters created for the Star Wars Special Edition re-releases in the late 90's. 

 

If George Lucas and Disney will only ever give us the Special Editions on disc, then at least give us steels with the matching art...

 

 

[Fortis93]

7 minutes ago, hansreinhardt said:

Well this one is probably going to be controversial, but I have always been partial to the posters created for the Star Wars Special Edition re-releases in the late 90's. 

 

If George Lucas and Disney will only ever give us the Special Editions on disc, then at least give us steels with the matching art...

 

 

 

It's weird how we haven't had as much Star Wars premiums as we do Blade Runner/Spiderman/Superman/Batman premiums.

[hansreinhardt]

10 hours ago, Fortis93 said:

 

It's weird how we haven't had as much Star Wars premiums as we do Blade Runner/Spiderman/Superman/Batman premiums.

 

Good point! Have there been any others aside from Creator Era?

[ethnosax]

32 minutes ago, hansreinhardt said:

 

Good point! Have there been any others aside from Creator Era?

Not original trilogy, but: Blufans (Rogue One, Force Awakens, Last Jedi); SM Life (Rise of Skywalker); Nova (Force Awakens); Kimchi (Rogue One)

 

Mondo did so many SW posters, I always wished they'd use some for the steelbook line. This is one I'd have been happy with:

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by ethnosax