No remasters of the Star Trek movies for the 50th anniversary?

[Maxwell Everett]

Originally Posted by steev210

Very disappointing indeed. However, Bill Hunt at the digitalbits.com stated in one of his daily Bits Updates that Paramount has very quietly begun production of some movies for eventual 4K roll out. Two of the titles specifically mentioned were Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) for release later this year. Per his January 28th update:



So (fingers crossed) hopefully this means they will begin re-issuing all the Star Trek films in 4K/Blu-ray Combo packs working backwards. I recall when the Star Trek films first hit blu-ray. They issued them from TMP working their way forward. Then as the format grew, they decided to issue the films in 2 disc Collector's Editions working from (at the time) the most recent movie and working backwards.

Time will tell...but yeah, all 10 movie are in desperate need of remasters (maybe with the exception of II).

I think you mean when the Star Trek films first hit DVD, not Blu-ray... and actually they went in reverse, then the collector's editions went forward from TMP Director's Edition on through NEMESIS. The two Abrams films in 4K will unfortunately just be an upscale of their 2K DIs. The same would be true for STAR TREK: NEMESIS by the way, which was the first Trek film to get a DI. Movies I-IX had cut 35mm negatives, so 4K transfers are very straightforward for the theatrical cuts of those (just as II was).