The Girl in the Spider's Web 4K UHD (2018)

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Originally Posted by blackwidowavenger1964

This was most likely cancelled due to the poor ratings in theaters. As a huge GWTDT fan myself, I absolutely loathed this movie. While yes, it would look amazing in 4K UHD, it is a rather lifeless movie. It is a complete waste of time on Sony's part to release a 4K UHD for a movie that will not sell. Aside from us here on the website, the casual buyer who passed on this in theater will probably pass on it for home video.

I feel the same as you (though I wouldn't use the word "loathe.") Being a fan of all previous movies and the books, I didn't love this film and knew within the first 10 minutes I wouldn't want to watch it again except maybe in the background. If you knew the characters and story beforehand, you could tell this movie did not understand them at all.

But I do want this franchise to thrive in the film/TV space. I want this to get a 4K release in the hopes that it sells kinda like Annihilation, not well but people were blind buying it because it was cheap and available. Mostly I don't want this bad movie to signal the end of cinematic attempts just because this team screwed it up. I think the books allow a lot of opportunities for other countries to have their hand in an adaptation and I'd love to see how, say, Canada or France approaches the material.