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Surprisingly I didn't see a thread for this. A North American blu-ray release for "1492: Conquest of Paradise" was announced back in August 2016. It will be released by Kino Lorber.
Here's the original August 26, 2016 announcement from High Def Digest:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/s...-1492-conquest-of-paradise-bluray-bound/34373
And here's the original August 22, 2016 from Kino Lorber's official facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorber....1472100089./1143115715745334/?type=3&theater
It was originally scheduled for the end of the year but that didn't happen. Since I hadn't seen any update about it, I messaged Kino's facebook page a week ago about it's status. I received a brief reply saying, "Still working on it." Which is good news!
I don't want to raise my expectations too high about it, but I'm hoping this blu-ray will include an all new 4K scan, a commentary from director Ridley Scott, and maybe even that 4 hour version discussed on here a few years back. Or at the very least, all the deleted scenes as special features, including the entire 4th voyage to Panama sequence cut from the film(referred to as the 3rd voyage in the movie since the second and third voyages were combined into one).
If they're "still working on it," at this point, maybe we can expect a release for this October, in time for the 25th anniversary of the film's release.
Here's the original August 26, 2016 announcement from High Def Digest:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/s...-1492-conquest-of-paradise-bluray-bound/34373
And here's the original August 22, 2016 from Kino Lorber's official facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorber....1472100089./1143115715745334/?type=3&theater
It was originally scheduled for the end of the year but that didn't happen. Since I hadn't seen any update about it, I messaged Kino's facebook page a week ago about it's status. I received a brief reply saying, "Still working on it." Which is good news!
I don't want to raise my expectations too high about it, but I'm hoping this blu-ray will include an all new 4K scan, a commentary from director Ridley Scott, and maybe even that 4 hour version discussed on here a few years back. Or at the very least, all the deleted scenes as special features, including the entire 4th voyage to Panama sequence cut from the film(referred to as the 3rd voyage in the movie since the second and third voyages were combined into one).
If they're "still working on it," at this point, maybe we can expect a release for this October, in time for the 25th anniversary of the film's release.