To celebrate the crime thriller's 30th anniversary, David Fincher's Se7en will be released for the first time digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on January 7, with a limited IMAX screening run starting on January 3.
Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey, Se7en (released in 1995) follows two police detectives in an anonymous, crime-riddled city as they try to stop a serial killer from committing a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins.
Only Fincher's second feature, the film made $327.3 million worldwide, and was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Fincher previously spoke about the restoration, which is now available to pre-order on Amazon:
“We’re going back and doing it in 4K from the original negative, and we overscan it, oversample it, doing all of the due diligence, and there’s a lot of shit that needs to be fixed […] Because there’s a lot of stuff that we now can add because of high dynamic range. You know, streaming media is a very different thing than 35mm motion picture negative in terms of what it can actually retain. So there are, you know, a lot of blown-out windows that we have to kind of go back and ghost in a little bit of cityscape out there.”
The digital 4K release of Se7en will be available on Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more, with the physical release available online and at all major retailers. Special features read as follows:
- Commentaries —
- The Stars: David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman
- The Story: Richard Dyer, Andrew Kevin Walker, Richard Francis-Bruce, Michael De Luca, David Fincher
- The Picture: Darius Khondji, Arthur Max, Richard Francis-Bruce, Richard Dyer, David Fincher
- The Sound: Ren Klyce, Howard Shore, Richard Dyer, David Fincher
- Deleted Scenes –
- Car Ride in from Gluttony
- My Future
- Raid on Victor’s
- Spare Some Change?
- Tracy Wakes from Light Sleep
- Pride
- Alternate endings –
- Animated storyboards of un-shot ending
- Original “Test” ending
- Still Photographs (featurettes) –
- John Doe’s Photographs
- Victor’s Decomposition
- Police Crime Scene Photographs
- Production Photographs
- The Notebooks
- Production Design (featurette)
- Mastering for the Home Theater (featurette)
- Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Early Storyboards (featurette)
- Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Rough Version (featurette)
- Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Final Edit (featurette)
- Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Stereo Audio Commentary One – The Concept – Designer Kyle Cooper (featurette)
- Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence: Stereo Audio Commentary Two – The Sound – Brant Biles & Robert Margouleff (featurette)
- Theatrical EPK
