Arrow Video Presents Solar System Sci-Fi Thrillers With New 4K Ultra HD Editions In November For Outland (Nov. 4) & Red Planet (Nov. 18)

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has 4K Ultra HD solar system action lined up for genre fans to savor come this November.   So let’s get right to it!

 
Sourced from the original 35mm camera negative and landing (or taking off as the case might be) on Nov. 4 is a newly-minted 4K Ultra HD edition of writer/director Peter Hyams’ 1981 trip to Jupiter’s sulfuric moon Io, Outland, starring an outgunned Sean Connery as a “Federal Marshall.”   

 
In this space Western, Marshall O’Niel (Connery) is set up to fail when he investigates a series of bizarre deaths on the super-productive Con-Am 27 mining operation on Io.  When he discovers the reason, which is directly related to why Con-Am 27 is so profitable, the manager, Mark Sheppard (played by Peter Boyle) calls in a hit team to do away with the pesky Marshall (think: High Noon in space).

 

Bonus features include two commentary options.   The first is an archived commentary with Hyams, and the second features film critic Chris Alexander.   There are also five newly-prepared featurettes included with this 4K Ultra HD presentation from Arrow Video on Nov. 4 — “A Corridor of Accidents,” “Outlandish,” “Introvision: William Mesa on Outland,” “No Place for Heroes” and “Hollywoodland Outland.”

 
The other thriller taking place in our solar system is director Antony Hoffman’s 2000 film release of Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore and Terence Stamp.  The 4K Ultra HD debut takes place on Nov. 18.

 
Bonus goodies kick off with Cereal at Midnight’s Heath Holland’s newly-prepared visual retrospective titled “Angry Red Planet.”   There are also deleted scenes and two additional featurettes — “The Martian Chronicles” and “Suit Up.”