Eastern Promises 4K UHD (2007)

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I'm curious what extras combination this might get.

US/CAN/UK BD: Secrets and Stories, Marked for Life, Two Guys Walk Into a Bath House, Watts on Wheels featurettes

French BD: Secrets and Stories, Marked for Life, Shadow to Light featurettes, The Mark of Cain documentary (Russian/French), Beyond the Movie: interview with Russia specialist Pierre Lorrain (French)

German BD: Conversations with Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, David Cronenberg; Interviews with Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Müller-Stahl, David Cronenberg, Steve Knight, Robert Lantos, Paul Webster; Featurettes; B-roll footage; Trailers and TV spots

It's a shame Cronenberg was never able to get his sequel off the ground and now Focus are planning on making it without him and Viggo as a Jason Statham film.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...-look-4099452/

Down to budgetary reasons apparently.

Focus Features couldn’t agree on a budget, basically. I thought it was a very ambitious script and I wanted to do it properly and they really felt the financial restraints of the world in general. It was a really budget disagreement. As far as I’m concerned I’m not involved anymore.

https://theplaylist.net/eastern-prom...tham-20201203/

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

He's 78, we don't know what responsibilities he has in his personal life, what his health is like.

In general, I think you are going to find most near 80 year old guy's want to spend as much time with their family, rather than spending hour's working on a commentary.

His current responsibility is shooting Crimes of the Future in Greece in August with Viggo, Kristen Stewart for NEON. Cronenberg has been more of an actor the past few years with Alias Grace, Star Trek Discovery, Falling, Disappearance at Clifton Hill as filmmaking projects have struggled to get off the ground. The same thing happened with Sydney Pollack later in his career.

He did a commentary in the last few years for Shivers though and I believe he was supposed to make his debut convention appearance last year had it not been for COVID. So he seems to still like talking about his movies for sure.

Originally Posted by dvining

I'm going alphabetically through my DVDs, upgrading a couple a month to Blu-ray and occasionally UHD when available.

I'm glad I haven't gotten to the E's yet.

I mostly upgrade if I feel like rewatching, it's a substantial upgrade (especially from DVDs) or there's some new extras.

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

These snobby Hollywood people usually do.

I think Cronenberg's first film to shoot in the US was Maps to the Stars. New York in Cosmopolis was a green screen soundstage with cutout car windows, and though The Fly was Fox it was shot in Toronto. I think Cronenberg has mainly stuck to Montreal and Toronto in addition to the odd UK production.