Severin Films has revealed that it is preparing a 4K Blu-ray release of Robert Fuest's The Final Programme (1973), starring Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews, and Hugh Griffith. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market during Black Friday.
Description: For more than 50 years, it's been called "endlessly inventive" (The Guardian), "audaciously bonkers" (Frame Rated) and "unlike any movie you've ever seen" (B&S About Movies). Now experience the "weird gem that needs to be celebrated" (Mondo Bizarro) in UHD for the first time ever: In this premier adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel, writer/director/production designer Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DEVIL'S RAIN) unleashes Moorcock's lethal dandy genius Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch of Hitchcock's FRENZY and Polanski's MACBETH) into a mind-melting conspiracy of mad scientists, pinball nuns and immortal ambisexuals bent on world domination. Jenny Runacre (THE PASSENGER), Sterling Hayden (THE KILLING) and Harry Andrews (THE NIGHTCOMERS) co-star in this "stylish acid comedy" (Boston Phoenix) – also known as LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal, with 6+ hours of Special Features that include audio commentaries, video essays and a revealing new on camera interview with Michael Moorcock.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY
4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY STUDIOCANAL
Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985
Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott
Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
DISC TWO - BLU-RAY
4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE BY STUDIOCANAL
Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985
Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott
A Brighter Apocalypse – Michael Moorcock On Jerry Cornelius And The Final Programme
Performance Independent – Interview With Producer Sanford Lieberson
From Pythons To Programmes – A Conversation With Producer John Goldstone
Programmer Of Immortality – Jenny Runacre In Conversation With Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
Dark Moons And New Worlds – Interview With James Riley, Author Of The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds And The End Of The Sixties
Androgynous Android – Video Essay By Costume Historian Elissa Rose
Archival Interview With Jenny Runacre
A Feast Of Fuest With Kim Newman, Author Of Nightmare Movies
Italian Title Sequence
Trailer
TV Spot
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature