Director James Cameron has confirmed that his beloved film
The Abyss has been recently remastered in 4K and will be released on Blu-ray in 2017. Mr. Cameron leaked the news while promoting the upcoming
30th anniversary Blu-ray release of
Aliens at Comic-Con in San Diego.
"We've done a wet-gate 4K scan of the original negative, and it's going to look insanely good. We're going to do an authoring pass in the DI for Blu-ray and HDR at the same time", Cameron said.
The news was first reported by Variety.
Synopsis: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious that has the power to change the world or destroy it. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn co-star.