It has been over a year
since we last heard about James Cameron’s forthcoming wet gate 4K scan of his
1989 underwater science fiction action thriller masterpiece The Abyss before mysteriously dropping
off the radar. During this time Cameron
seemed to be redirecting his attention to preparing new Avatar sequels and the still long-awaited blu-ray release of The Abyss seemed to go on the back
burner, causing fans like myself to lament yet another indefinite delay to this
blu-ray disc happening at all. What’s
more, his action comedy thriller True
Lies, like The Abyss, still only
have severely outdated non-anamorphic DVDs replete with aliasing, edge
enhancement and a generally blurry looking image better suited for CRT
televisions than those of us stuck with hitting the zoom button on our HDTVs and/or
the blu-ray player itself.
Not to worry however. In a recent post on TheArnoldFans.com, James
Cameron revealed he was tied up working on preparing the aforementioned Avatar sequels and now that
pre-production seems to be in the finishing stages, he is now in fact turning
his attention back to the 4K remaster of The
Abyss and further still revealed at long last True Lies will also be receiving the 4K treatment! As the director’s forthcoming 4K 3D remaster
of Terminator 2: Judgment Day prepares
for theatrical re-release alongside teasing at a possible 3D conversion of Aliens, James Cameron has been dropping
quite a lot of exciting news regarding his most celebrated works lately! With this in mind, I can’t wait to see how
both The Abyss and True Lies will turn out and am elated to
hear they’re most definitely going to happen!
- Andrew Kotwicki