“Purple Planet” has returned.
The massive funds sci-fi film from 2000, which starred Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore as astronauts on the doomed first mission to Mars, was one thing of a field workplace disappointment when it was first launched. However within the years because it has grown in estimation, largely due to its unimaginable forged (which additionally consists of Terence Stamp, Benjamin Bratt and Simon Baker) and nifty visible results (AMEE, the workforce’s malfunctioning robotic, is the stuff of nightmares).
And now you possibly can reassess with a brand-new, restricted version 4K UHD launch from our associates at Arrow Video, hitting the UK on November 17 and the US on November 18.
Watch a newly created trailer for the discharge beneath, as you put together to revisit “Purple Planet.”
This new launch encompasses a Dolby Imaginative and prescient 4K presentation, with an authentic lossless 5.1 audio combine, and a bevy of recent particular options, together with an interview with visible results supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun; a brand new interview with Steve Johnson, who designed the helmet and area fits; and a brand new video essay by movie critic Heath Holland. This, together with the entire archival particular options, together with deleted scenes and the theatrical trailer. This Arrow launch additionally features a reversible sleeve that includes authentic and newly commissioned art work by Matt Griffin together with an illustrated collector’s booklet that includes new writing on the movie by Mark A. Altman.
On the time that “Purple Planet” was launched, it was competing in opposition to one other Mars-set journey – Disney’s based-on-a-theme-park-attraction “Mission to Mars,” directed by the legendary Brian De Palma. “Mission to Mars,” which starred Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Connie Nielsen, made it to theaters earlier and was a extra sizable hit, however the debate rages on as to which of the 2 motion pictures was the superior Mars expedition.
“Purple Planet” arrives on 4K UHD from Arrow Video on November 17 within the UK and November 18 in the US.
