We previously reported on an upcoming 4K re-release of Alien on Blu-ray. Now it looks like they’re taking it one step further and bringing the 4K restoration back on Big Screens around the UK (and selected international territories) too!
According to SeenIt the new 4K restoration of Alien will debut at the Glasgow Film Festival before making its way into cinemas around the UK.
The film was restored in 4K in 2018 by 20th Century Fox at Company 3/Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, supervised by Ridley Scott and Pam Dery. The 4K scans were done at EFilm and the audio restoration was done by Audio Mechanics.
Following a special screening at Glasgow Film Festival on February 28 2019, Alien will open at BFI Southbank on 1 March 2019 for an exclusive two-week run, before screening at cinemas across the UK and selected international territories.
Currently Cineworld and Vue have listings up for the re-release. Vue seems to be showing the film on the 1st of March while Cineworld is showing on the 11th. The Blu-ray release is currently slated at the start of May.
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No idea if it's the 4K restoration, though.
Saw Alien couple years ago when the Covenant came out, but the experience was surprisingly underwhelming, dunno why. Maybe seeing Prometheus took something away and the space jockey scene no longer was as effective.
Blade Runner on a huge screen in a packed cinema couple months ago was great though.
I think this version also included unreleased material in addition to the deleted scenes / outtakes from the various home video releases
I've never heard of that version. Does it fix the pacing issues and flesh out the characters?
If the original 2003 re-edit (with everthing thrown back in, before the director pruned it back) still exists, I would love to see that get a home video release.
But ideally it should where it was scripted to be - just after Ripley finds Parker and Lambert.
I watched the Alien DC yesterday for the first time in a long time. I too liked the added shot of the creature hanginng from the chains. However, it seems so strange to have Rips set the self destruct and then randomly go down the ladder to the nest with only 10 minutes to gtfo.
Interestingly, in one of Michael Palin's diary books he talks about an early screening of Alien (he was on the board at Shepparton I think), and says the movie never tops the chestburster scene. So perhaps there was some justification for speeding it up even back then?
Maybe he's right - I dunno. Thing is, including the hive scene just slowed stuff down again.
Haven't watched the theatrical version in years. Once I saw the hive scene, I was hooked on the DC.
when it comes to the 4K remasters of the Alien series as a whole.
I hope they don't let James Cameron near the 4K of Aliens
with a ten foot pole after what he did to Judgment Day's 4K.
As for the 4K Discs....I will be waiting till the entire movie set is in 4K.
PLEASE put the Cat smack in the Theatrical version!
The end of that scene is such a bizarre cut off-
the music just abruptly ends.
But I won't hold my breath.
Or if that's too on the nose.
The Special Edition.
Or y'know it should actually be scrapped altogether, just replaced with an extended Cut-
With all the extra scenes from the DC tacked onto the TC, with the original transmission-
and the original cocoon scene moved to before the tension ramps up, not in the middle of the escape.
I love the Eggmorphing scene so much but all the other snips really hurt that film - especially Dallas and MUTHUR. Also prefer the original transmission, not the DC version too.
It's slightly shorter. A truncated version of the hive scene was added as well as the transmission scene, but you lose 'do you mind it I put the transmission through ECIU' and the 'what are my chances' scene, and a stack of scenes have a few seconds shaved off. After Brett is killed it really flies by.
No, it's actually 11 seconds shorter.
The DC's a novelty only.
Both slaps should've been included in the Theatrical Cut-
otherwise the TC's perfect, but you can't have everything.
I've seen a back to back screening of Alien and Aliens but this 4k restoration sounds juicy.
Can't wait.
I second this!
Whilst too young to see the original Alien on the big screen (saw it on it's initial TV release over here) I did manage to see the Director's Cut on the big screen.
Theatrical or Director's Cut? Or both?