Umbrella Entertainment: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Sky Pirates (UPDATED)
HomeUmbrella Entertainment: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Sky Pirates (UPDATED)
Posted June 1, 2023 05:34 PM by Webmaster
Umbrella Entertainment has provided us with a promotional trailer for its brand new 4K restoration of Colin Eggleston's Ozploitation classic Sky Pirates (1986), starring John Hargreaves, Meredith Phillips, and Max Phipps. The release will be available for purchase on August 23.
UPDATE: Special features, technical specs, and release date have been added up.
Official description: In the wake of the success of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, maverick Ozploitation auteurs John D. Lamond (FELICITY) and Colin Eggleston (LONG WEEKEND) joined forces on this breezy, tongue-in-cheek, thrill-a-minute, big screen epic inspired by their love of Republic Pictures' cliffhanger serials.
John Hargreaves is Flight Lt. Harris – a wisecracking pilot with an addiction for adventure. He teams up with the feisty daughter of a kidnapped clergyman and they hotfoot it across the globe to rescue her father and locate the separated pieces of a powerful, mystical tablet. In pursuit is arch villain Savage (Max Phipps) hell-bent on getting his mitts on "the ultimate power".
Boasting exotic location work (including a climactic showdown filmed on Easter Island) and an action-packed, genre-bending plot that includes time warps, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle and the Philadelphia Experiment – not to mention an aerial dogfight and a RAIDERS-style truck chase – SKY PIRATES is the ultimate old fashioned, fast-moving, two-fisted, pulpy B-movie experience! What's not to like?
Umbrella Entertainment proudly presents the worldwide high-def debut of this weird and wild Ozploitation rarity with a new 4K transfer from the original 35mm vault materials supervised by cinematographer Garry Wapshott.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UPDATE: Special features, technical specs, and release date have been added up.
Official description: In the wake of the success of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, maverick Ozploitation auteurs John D. Lamond (FELICITY) and Colin Eggleston (LONG WEEKEND) joined forces on this breezy, tongue-in-cheek, thrill-a-minute, big screen epic inspired by their love of Republic Pictures' cliffhanger serials.
John Hargreaves is Flight Lt. Harris – a wisecracking pilot with an addiction for adventure. He teams up with the feisty daughter of a kidnapped clergyman and they hotfoot it across the globe to rescue her father and locate the separated pieces of a powerful, mystical tablet. In pursuit is arch villain Savage (Max Phipps) hell-bent on getting his mitts on "the ultimate power".
Boasting exotic location work (including a climactic showdown filmed on Easter Island) and an action-packed, genre-bending plot that includes time warps, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle and the Philadelphia Experiment – not to mention an aerial dogfight and a RAIDERS-style truck chase – SKY PIRATES is the ultimate old fashioned, fast-moving, two-fisted, pulpy B-movie experience! What's not to like?
Umbrella Entertainment proudly presents the worldwide high-def debut of this weird and wild Ozploitation rarity with a new 4K transfer from the original 35mm vault materials supervised by cinematographer Garry Wapshott.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- EXCLUSIVE NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM BY UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT
- NEW Audio commentary with producer Michael Hirsh, cinematographer Garry Wapshott, script supervisor Jenni Tosi and stills photographer David Parker moderated by filmmaker Mark Hartley
- NEW Extended NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD interviews with writer/producer John D. Lamond and cinematographer Garry Wapshott
- NEW Deleted and extended scenes
- NEW VFX test footage with commentary by visual effects supervisor Dennis Nicholson
- NEW VFX breakdown featurette
- NEW Filmbuff's Forecast tribute to John D. Lamond with Michael Hirsh, Alan Finney, Paul Harris and Mark Hartley
- NEW "INDIANA CLONES" trailer reel
- NEW Colin Eggleston trailer reel
- Extensive stills and poster gallery
- Original theatrical trailer See less
- 48-page bound book - Indiana Clones Diary - An Indispensable Guide To The Best Big Screen Raiders Rip-Offs
- Custom designed outer rigid slipcase
- Custom design slipcase
- 8 replica lobby cards
- A3 reversible poster
- Limited Edition Numbered release