It Sounds Like James Cameron's THE ABYSS Will Finally Be Getting a 4K Release!

James Cameron fans have been waiting for a long time for a 4K UltraHD release of his classic 1989 sci-fi film The Abyss. Well, it sounds like that’s coming soon!

Journalist Arthur Cios recently reported that during an interview with Cameron about Avatar: The Way of Water, The Abyss on 4K came up in the conversation, and Cameron told him that "he had a new master and it would be out by March 2023 max."

The film tells the story of a crew of an American nuclear submarine that encounters an alien species, which coincidentally causes massive electrical and hydraulic malfunctions, causing the sub to crash into an underwater cliff and sink. The navy asks the workers of a nearby underwater oil rig who are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of the crash. As the crew embarks on their mission, they encounter a number of difficulties and discover that they may not be alone. There is something else down there.

This movie pushed the boundaries of visual effects, which is something that Cameron has been doing his entire career. It’ll be really cool to see this movie again in 4K and it would be awesome if it also got a theatrical re-release!

Last year Cameron teased the hi-def remaster saying: "We finished the transfer and I wanted to do it myself because Mikael [Salomon] did such a beautiful job with the cinematography on that film. It is truly, truly gorgeous cinematography. That was before I started to assert myself in terms of lighting and asking the cinematographer to do certain things. I'd compose with the camera and choose the lenses, but I left the lighting to him. He did a remarkable job on that movie that I appreciate better now than I did even as we were making it."

He continued: "I'd also like to point out that he took one look at the first day's dailies of the underwater lighting and he went out and learned to scuba dive. He came in the following Monday morning, the worst diver in the world, but he reinvented underwater lighting. He went for indirect lighting and he got everybody doing things that were not just outside their comfort zone, they'd never even thought of it. Suddenly the underwater shots start to live up to the surface photography."

Stay tuned for more details on the release of The Abyss in 4K.