Shatter 4K UHD (Hammer Films)

[RossyG]

I hope I’m not putting two and two together to make five but Hammer has posted this and teased that all will be revealed in an announcement this Friday.

4K First Look: Shatter Like You’ve NEVER Seen It Before! - YouTube

My assumption is that it’ll be a 4K UHD. Hope so.

It’s an atypical Hammer film, but one I’ve always wanted to see and should have crossover appeal with Shaw Bros/Hong Kong action fans.

[oddbox83]

1.66...

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by RossyG

I hope I’m not putting two and two together to make five but Hammer has posted this and teased that all will be revealed in an announcement this Friday.

4K First Look: Shatter Like You’ve NEVER Seen It Before! - YouTube

My assumption is that it’ll be a 4K UHD. Hope so.

It’s an atypical Hammer film, but one I’ve always wanted to see and should have crossover appeal with Shaw Bros/Hong Kong action fans.

Yeah this is pretty much a foregone conclusion. In their most recent newsletter, Hammer not only offered a preview clip of the new SHATTER restoration, but also T-shirts for DRACULA, THE MUMMY, and FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL. Let's hope these are clues about possible upcoming releases, because it's high time we got a CLASSIC.

[saltysam]

I've got the Shout! blu but will upgrade if it's UHD.

[oddbox83]

So deleted scenes… I wonder if they’ve done an extended cut?

I’m
Guessing they’re doing multiple ratios and cuts to up the price.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by saltysam

I've got the Shout! blu but will upgrade if it's UHD.

It will be a UHD, although I'm sure they'll include a BD as well.

[Rayjg]

Did Hellman complete a cut of this before he was fired? Maybe they could include that as an extra.

[BobSimms]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

1.66...

That’s the best AR, mate, you know this!

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

Did Hellman complete a cut of this before he was fired? Maybe they could include that as an extra.

No, he was fired less than two weeks into the shoot.

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

That’s the best AR, mate, you know this!

That Kubrick had to expressly write to projectionists in the UK in the mid 1970s to show Barry Lyndon at 1.66:1 ideally or 1.75 at most tells you that 1.66:1 was already largely superseded by 1.75 and increasingly 1.85.

I’ve looked at the 1.85:1 US disc it looks fine but my instinct tells me 1.75 would be spot on.

On Kronos the 1.85:1 looked perfect with the 1.66 rather loose, let alone the 1.37:1!

No matter how many times this is discussed, there’s a group of people who always default back to 1.66 being right for British movies across the board.

[r32]

https://hammerfilms.com/products/sha...ctors-edition?

[Bikeroy]

Just had email and ordered.

[MifuneFan]

Special Features

The discs feature:

• New commentary with academic and Asian cinema expert Leon Hunt and film historian and writer Adrian Smith.
• New commentary with Heidi Honeycutt, writer, filmmaker and film programmer, and western/crime movie expert Toby Roan.
• 1998 commentary with uncredited director Monte Hellman and contributions from Stuart Whitman.
• Once Upon a Time in the East: Screenwriter and author David Pirie and Little Shoppe of Horrors’ Dick Klemensen examine the state of Hammer in the 1970s and the numerous issues encountered filming Shatter in Hong Kong.
• Hammer and Tongs: archive interview with Renée Glynne, in charge of continuity on many Hammers, as she reflects on Hong Kong and the various issues that plagued Shatter’s production.
• Cultural Crossover: Historian and film critic Christina Newland and academic/martial arts cinema expert Wayne Wong examine Shatter’s place in the wider context of 1970s action/crime films and Asian martial arts cinema.
• Hitting the Right Notes: Musician Mike Lindup reflects on his father, composer David Lindup, and his body of work which covered film soundtracks, library music and arrangements and orchestrations for musicians like Johnny Dankworth.
• Censored: A comparison of the new, uncensored restoration and the censored master that was previously in circulation for decades.
• A gallery of stills and publicity material alongside tracks from David Lindup’s score.

The booklet features:

• New article by writer and actor Bruce G. Hallenbeck examining the making of Shatter.
• New article by film journalist Paul Bramhall that investigates “East meets West” productions and the casting of Asian stars in international films.
• New article by author and crime film expert Barry Forshaw who investigates the Golden Age of Crime Movies: the 1970s!
• New article by writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington who takes a pointed look at the swirling zeitgeist of early 1970s pop culture and how it influenced Shatter.
• New article making an in-depth comparison of the different versions of the Shatter script in the Hammer Archive, how the story developed and how it compares with what’s onscreen.
• New article taking a deep dive that addresses the rumours and guesswork surrounding the making of Shatter with the aid of recently-unearthed key paperwork from the Hammer Archive.

• Double-sided poster

[cheez avenger]

This is up on Orbit for pre-order. For stateside folks.

[Axonite]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shatter-Lim...%2C1287&sr=8-1

[saltysam]

My copy just arrived from Hammer.

[saltysam]

There's a choice of watching the uk theatrical version in 1:66:1 or the us theatrical version in 1:85:1. Both the same run time . i watched the 1:85:1 version.

[oddbox83]

Good choice.

[Nitroes]

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