![]() ![]() And it looks like a shitty, million-dollar movie. They really love this new black-and-white conversion. And I, at one point, thought about re-editing, but then I realized if I just turned it black-and-white that would be the best, easiest thing to do, and the most radical way of kind of imprinting how I really wanted it, because I wanted to make it in black-and-white originally.… For me, for William, and for Keanu, this is a bit of redemption. “…I always had this fantasy that on the 25th anniversary I would try to get some redemption in relation to this film, because making it was really difficult. In an extensive interview published by Screenslate around the time of the B&W Version’s brief theatrical premiere in June 2021, the director explains that he initially created the B&W Version himself by ripping a Blu-Ray and wanted to do an illicit release via a site like YouTube before being convinced to get in touch with Sony, which came to support the new version. There was a sentient dolphin that I think was the leader of some sort of cyber-resistance movement, a gonzo appearance by Dolph Lundgren as an evil, nigh-unkillable preacher who wanted the ‘medicine’ inside Johnny’s body, and Keanu Reeves delivering a wooden, yet earnest and likable performance amidst all the insanity.Īccording to director Robert Longo, Johnny Mnemonic in Black White is not a ‘director’s cut’ of the film, though it is closer to what he had initially envisioned it as, which was an artsy, low-budget picture. My memories of the movie are hazy but I distinctly recall it being funny and weird. * Critics apparently hated the movie upon its initial release, though it has garnered a cult following over the years. The other is the black-and-white version of 1995 cult cyberpunk thriller Johnny Mnemonic, which starred a pre- Matrix Keanu Reeves as a data courier who uses his own mind to transport information in the dystopian future of 2021.* The Blu-Ray will be largely bare bones (though some early owners are reporting that it includes a 30-minute retrospective featurette), which is unfortunate given the movie’s strange bts history and the availability of a special edition release overseas. ![]() The one you are more likely to have heard of is the suddenly announced 160-minute extended edition of the 2022 blockbuster Jurassic World: Dominion, which is packaged alongside the theatrical version in a snazzy, old-school special edition Blu-Ray. On Tuesday (8/16), two new alternate versions are coming out on Blu-Ray.
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