Long trapped in standard definition, Panic Room will invade homes on SteelBook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital on February 18 via Sony.
The 2002 thriller has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by director David Fincher, with Dolby Vision/HDR and Dolby Atmos audio.
Written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible), the movie stars Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, and Kristen Stewart.
In the film, “Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders—Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto)—during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.”
The release includes:
Disc 1 – 4K UHD:
- 4K restoration, supervised by director David Fincher
- Dolby Vision/HDR presentation
- Dolby Atmos audio track English 5.1
Disc 2 – Blu-ray:
- 4K restoration, supervised by director David Fincher
- Audio commentary by David Fincher
- Audio commentary by actors Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Dwight Yoakam
- Audio commentary by writer David Koepp and special guest
Disc 3 – Blu-ray:
- Pre-Production
- Six featurettes on the prep phase, from pre-visualization through testing
- Interactive previsualization — Compare the pre-visualization, storyboards, dailies and final film in a multi-angle, multi-audio feature with optional commentary
- Production
- Shooting Panic Room – An hour-long documentary on the principal photography phase
- Makeup effects featurette with Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.
- Sequence breakdowns – An interactive look at the creation of four separate scenes in the film
- Post-production
- Twenty-one documentaries and featurettes on the visual effects
- On Sound Design with Ren Klyce
- Digital Intermediate and other featurettes dealing with the post-production phase
- A multi-angle look at the scoring session conducted by Howard Shore
2025 is poised to be a banner year for Fincher fans, as Se7en is coming to 4K UHD in January and a 4K restoration of Fight Club is in the works.
