October 2024 marks the silver-jubilee of American director David Fincher’s influential film – Fight Club. The film arrived in theaters back in the year 1999 featuring Brad Pitt, Jared Leto, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter in pivotal roles. Now, to celebrate the film’s 25 years of existence, makers are set to give it a theatrical re-release with a 4K remaster in the coming year.
The news has elated fans across the globe as it will be overseeing a new 4K Ultra HD remaster of the New Regency and 20th Century Fox film. Major details are still kept under wraps, but the announcement so far reveals that the film director will also be releasing a 25 year anniversary art book with the inclusion of new interviews, unearthed visuals and rare behind-the-scenes clippings from the movie.
Back in October 1999, when ‘Fight Club’ release in the theatres, it started with a disappointing performance initially but soon became a cult hit. Over the years, this film became a definite symbol of cinematic innovation in terms of filmmaking technology and exploration of sociopolitical themes.
“Fight Club” isn’t the only classic from the filmmaker’s catalog to receive this renewed attention. Last year, at the Tribeca Film Festival, Fincher discussed his work on a 4K remaster of his 1995 crime thriller Se7en, which again featured Brad Pitt in a big role. In a conversation regarding the enhancement of his old projects, David Fincher said, “We’re going back and doing it in 4K from the original negative and we overscan it…..Because there’s a lot of stuff that we now can add because of high dynamic range, so there are a lot of blown-out windows that we have to go back on and ghost in a little bit of cityscape out there.”
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