King David Blu-ray

[John Johnson]

Paramount Home Media Distribution plans to bring to Blu-ray Bruce Beresford's King David (1985), starring Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, and Niall Buggy. Currently, the release is scheduled to arrive on the market on April 26.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=30266

[Monterey Jack]

We can get King David on Blu, but not The Abyss or True Lies...

[John Johnson]

Back in the day, one of the visitors we got at the label, used to bring in studio tapes. I remember King David being one of them.

[AndyDursin]

We can get King David on Blu, but not The Abyss or True Lies...

At this point there is only one person to blame for that and it's Cameron himself. Nobody else.

And my guess is TRUE LIES is never going to be remastered, it's going to be the modern day SONG OF THE SOUTH for a global elitist like Cameron and his increasingly liberal politics. I'd bet he's ashamed of it now.

[Monterey Jack]

What makes it worse is that both movies weren't even treated well on DVD, given non-anamorphic transfers that never received proper re-issues during the heyday of the format. We almost got a "Five Star" DVD set for True Lies, but then 9/11 happened, and it was scuppered. I understand that True Lies is "problematic" these days (Racist! Sexist...!), but what's the excuse for The Abyss?

It's doubly-frustrating that these movies represent two-thirds of the thin Cameron filmography that didn't become part of a franchise (along with Titanic). Dude's only made seven movies (if you don't count Piranha 2 ), will probably spend the rest of his career making Avatar sequels, and yet two of his films can't even get out of the non-anamorphic DVD era of the late 90s. For a techhead like Cameron, that's appalling.

[AndyDursin]

It's dumb but there's no other explanation. Any studio would've released them decades ago...he must want to sign off on everything and be a major PIA to deal with. And now that Disney has them, there's even less chance of a physical release for either. We keep hearing rumors but that's about it. Anyway you can find serviceable HD streams of both and they're better than DVD.

[Paul MacLean]

Will probably pick this up. It's an underrated movie, with a fine Carl Davis score too (one of the few theatrical features this mostly-television composer worked on).

[John Johnson]

Will probably pick this up. It's an underrated movie, with a fine Carl Davis score too (one of the few theatrical features this mostly-television composer worked on).

Although the CD had a low press run (1000 copies), it's available on Discogs and at a cheap price.