If you’re a fan of David Lowery’s The Green Knight (and you should be), here’s some exciting news for you! The new Blu-ray special edition of the movie coming out this November will include a new short film that Lowery made this year.
The 20-minute short is called The Oak Thorn & The Old Rose of Love and stars Jackie Earle Haley (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049). Lowery told Collider how this short came to be:
“It’s not directly related [to The Green Knight], but it is based on another piece of Arthurian lore, so there’s definitely a connection. I’d already been thinking about adapting this particular story, and as we were coming up with ways to make the Blu-ray extra special, I thought it would be nice to have an adjunct movie on the disc. I love physical media, and loved the idea of having this short film that would never be released online, that would only ever be available on the big screen or on this disc. I’m sure someone will rip it right away, but in theory this short film is an exclusively physical object.”
While The Green Knight came out in 2021, The Oak Thorn & The Old Rose was shot this year between July and September. Lowery also confessed to Collider that “no one knows we made it” except for the handful of folks who worked on it. “I edited it in LA, my friend Nick supervised the VFX in New Orleans, Johnny Marshall mixed the sound in his garage in Dallas, Andrew did the color in LA, my producers Toby and James and Lisa put everything together in Dallas, and Daniel Hart wrote the score in between recording sessions for Peter Pan & Wendy and Interview With The Vampire,” he shared.
You can check out the 20-minute short on the Blu-ray collectors edition of The Green Knight when it releases on November 25.
