Gesù di Nazareth 4K (Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth)

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Originally Posted by steveinaustin

I wondered what happened to this project? Is it still going to be released? I sure hope it is.

It should be. They posted stills from the new VFX they did back in December.

https://www.facebook.com/Pierfilippo...mspJUdrgdnuyml

https://www.facebook.com/Pierfilippo...Tr5TrwxNQYmrRl

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception with an exclusive frame of Franco Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" with Robert Powell that we restored and color corrected in almost a year of patient work to produce a 4K HDR edition.

In this frame, actress Olivia Hussey (Maria) listens to Archangel Gabriele's voice announcing her upcoming pregnancy. Originally, the supernatural presence was realized with a simple light hanging on a wire outside the window of Gianni Quaranta’s stage construction.

In the new version, besides the color, we improved the light beam and covered the bulb with an invisible digital effect but more magical and elaborate.

Another little preview taken from the 4K HDR edition of Franco Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth". Because the digital scans of the film with the scene of Joseph and Mary's arrival in the cave where the baby Jesus will be born were too ruined, due to the presence of the original optical effects with starry skies that already degrade the quality, it became necessary to recreate the night scenes from scratch. Here are six tests of masks made by our artist Pino Gengo and the original starting frame!

I don't think someone hired them for a year and had them do new VFX to throw away all that work.