4K Remaster Of David Fincher's 'SE7EN' In The Works Says Director

It’s almost been 30 years since we heard the famous line “What’s in the box?! at the climax of David Fincher’s crime thriller SE7EN and the director has some new updates regarding the long rumored 4k restoration of the film.

In a chat with Variety this week, Fincher reveals that a 4K remaster is on the way!

Fincher tells the outlet, “We’re going back and doing it in 4K from the original negative and we overscan it, oversample it, doing all of the due diligence and there’s a lot of shit that needs to be fixed. Because there’s a lot of stuff that we now can add because of high dynamic range.”

He continues, “You know, streaming media is a very different thing than 35 mm motion picture negative in terms of what it can actually retain. So there are, you know, a lot of blown-out windows that we have to kind of go back and ghost in a little bit of cityscape out there.”

No, Fincher is not going to go and re-edit the film or anything like that. He tells Variety that he’s “fundamentally against the idea of changing what [the film] is,” referring to the infamous re-release of E.T. as a guiding light for what NOT to do. He notes, “I’m not gonna take all the guns out of people’s hands and replace them with flashlights.”

We’ll let ya know more when we find out an actual release date.

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