Director Francis Ford Coppola’s instant classic, The Godfather, just released a trailer for the 50th-anniversary edition of the motion picture. Not only is there a new trailer featuring a look at the new 4K restoration, but Comicbook is also reporting that Paramount Pictures has also announced that they will be having a limited re-release of the theatrical version for a limited run, starting on February 25th. This will be the first time that The Godfather has gotten the 4K treatment. Coppola had some words in regards to the celebration:
Leave the Standard HD and Take the 4K
Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope production has been working on this new 50th-anniversary restoration of The Godfather for the past 3 years. The production company has also been working on restoring The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.
As part of the 4K restoration process, the team at American Zoetrope sifted through over 300 cartons of film stock, spent over 4,000 hours on repairing any film stains, tears, and other anomalies in the negatives, and another 1,000 hours on color restoration. With every single aspect of the process being overseen by the legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola, himself.
