Summary
Its officially 2025, and that makes it the year ofSe7ens 30th anniversary.
The movie starsMorgan FreemanandBrad Pittas detectives.
For example, why was now the right time forSe7enandPanic Roombut not, let’s say,The Game?
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You don’t get to redo it.
You have to just kind of make the best of what you have.
So, we were working on both of them simultaneously.
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I’m working onFight Clubright now, but it’s a costly process.
It’s really a question of who wants to endure because it’s hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s been properly stored.
I’m sure it’s in some subterranean salt mine, in some perfect-pressure, positive-pressure environment.
When you run a negative, you get very tiny scratches from synching.
There was a lot.
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We had to really get a baseline assessment of how deep we were going to go in fixing it.
4K derived from an 8K master reveals so much of the degradation that takes place.
So we weren’t really so much remastering as we were remaking the negative.
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
And you probably won’t see it."
I have so many follow-up questions.
Some of your answer is making me think about something you said during your Tribeca talk.
You mentioned you won’t make major changes to a movie when doing a 4K release.
But the performance in it was so good that we went with it.
There was no issue in terms of the background.
Its right as I want to watch a reaction, and the camera’s moving.
And we didn’t know if we could.
And you probably won’t see it.
You probably won’t be aware that it’s happened.
The 4K release will also be available on Digital and Blu-ray.
Does this warrant trying to get this to match?
And when you print it on film, it’s actually an incredibly soft medium.
So there was that kind of exhumation.
We did a lot of that stuff.
Everything that we’re gonna print from this point on has to look like that.
That’s what we were trying to get back to.
The appetite for that is through the roof, and I don’t think it’s ever going away.
FINCHER: That’s very sweet, but I don’t know.
I like physical media, but I really like on-demand.
I do like the act of holding them.
So, yeah, I doubt it.
But I’m with you.
I do like having a disc.
I don’t know that film could handle 24-bit color depth.
I’m not letting those DVDs go for anything.
The HD ones pretty good too, but I think HDR is really amazing.
Sometimes I do feel 4K is too sharp.
And especially if it’s HDR, you’re seeing so much.
How do you capture that without turning it into a new experience?
You want it to kind of be beholden to its period.
By the time 25 years go by, you forget that was a revolutionary idea in 1975.
Se7enarrives on 4K UHD on January 7.
Se7enbegins its exclusive IMAX engagements on January 3.
