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William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’ may finally resurface

March 24th, 2013 by Marc Comments

 

After years mired in legal issues, it looks like William Friedkin’s 1977 cult film ‘Sorcerer’ may finally resurface.

The film tells the story of four criminals hiding out in Nicaragua who are given the task of transporting unstable ‘sweating’ dynamite two hundred miles through the South American jungle to help extinguish an oil fire.

Last year, Friedkin sued Universal and Paramount to determine who owns the rights. Though the lawsuit was dropped, that action seems to have had an effect with a re-colored digital print put into production.

“We’re working off the original negative, which is in pretty good shape, but without changing the original concept we have to bring it back in terms of color saturation, sharpness and all the stuff” Friedkin tells the trade paper.

The aim is for the new print to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….