The Shawshank Redemption has received a 4K restoration and will re-release in cinemas in the UK and Ireland this coming Friday. The Frank Darabont-directed film was nominated in seven Academy Awards categories and the number one rated movie on IMDb’s Top 250 list – and rightly so.
The restoration from Warner Bros. features a new 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative and was supervised by director Frank Darabont and cinematographer Roger Deakins.
Internationally acclaimed actors Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in a compelling drama of hope, friendship and atonement behind the walls of a maximum-security prison in The Shawshank Redemption. From a novella by best-selling author Stephen King comes a poignant tale of the human spirit. Red (Freeman), serving a life sentence, and Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a mild-mannered banker wrongly convicted of murder, forge an unlikely bond that will span more than twenty years. Together they discover hope as the ultimate means of survival. Under horrifying conditions and the ever-present threat of violence, two lifers reclaim their souls and find freedom within their hearts in The Shawshank Redemption.
Park Circus is behind the re-release nationwide – in Vue cinemas – from 18th March. The restoration is also screening across Norway from Thursday 17 March at Cinemateket i Kristiansand, Cinemateket i Bergen, Cinemateket i Lillehammer, Sølvberget Cinematek Stavanger, Verdensteatret Cinematek Tromsø and Cinemateket i Trondheim.
Here’s the 4K restoration trailer.
