Once Upon a time in the west Arriving on 4K

[Endocryne]

A couple weeks back, Kino's official Twitter account confirmed that Paramount will be releasing Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West on 4K for its 55th Anniversary!


This has been strongly suspected for a while now, and I also recently spotted a Paramount employee watching, and rating it on his Letterboxd account, which has happened leading up to eventual Paramount releases. Obviously this is Paramount, so we have to be cautiously optimistic here. I'll update the post once more details comes out.

[dvdmike]

Depends who mastered it, same with Face/Off with both companies

[Stamper]

I suppose all the edit problems will still be there (including the waking up from the platform scene).

[captainsolo]

It’s Paramount so we will beyond lucky if it it a hands off 4k master of the exact Blu-ray edit. Knowing them it will fubared to hell in DNR and disc mastering either with or without the same mono that’s been reused from the LD over and over. No new extras and most or some of the DVD legacy extras ported.

That darn ending music cue problem will likely never be fixed.

[dvdmike]

Best bet is an untouchables level

[J Nada]

It’s Paramount so we will beyond lucky if it it a hands off 4k master of the exact Blu-ray edit. Knowing them it will fubared to hell in DNR and disc mastering either with or without the same mono that’s been reused from the LD over and over. No new extras and most or some of the DVD legacy extras ported.

That darn ending music cue problem will likely never be fixed.

I'm hoping for the best but not expecting it, sadly.

[Stamper]

Look on the bright side, this will give us new mastering that can be use to fix the original version at home