Overview

• Elio is available for digital purchase on August 19 on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home, with 4K UHD, Blu‑ray, and DVD following on September 9.
• The digital release bundles deleted scenes titled Bike Chase, Garden Party, Carver Legend, Questa’s Second Test, and Home Visit, alongside featurettes, an art class, an astronaut Q&A, Easter eggs, and a gag reel.
• An exclusive clip highlighted by TheWrap confirms a previous structure built around three tests and shows Lord Grigon evolving from another ambassador to the film’s chief antagonist.
• USA TODAY’s preview of Carver Legend shows a Camp Carver gauntlet for a clone of Elio and notes the sequence was cut to refocus the story on his relationship with guardian Aunt Olga, per producer Mary Alice Drumm.
• io9’s Home Visit clip comes from an iteration where Olga was written as Elio’s mother, underscoring later changes to character dynamics and streamlined set pieces.