John Branca, co-executor of the Jackson estate, describes the restored and enhanced Thriller as “authentic, visceral and still impactful. “We enhanced it … like in that scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the others are being buffed and polished inside Emerald City.” “But we didn’t just restore Thriller,” Landis continues. And Michael and I always intended for people to see Thriller in a movie theater. I’d been trying to get to the negative for a long time as the new digital technologies are amazing at restoring films. “All of the copies of Thriller out there now are duped,” Landis tells Billboard, “and it used to drive me crazy. Now, 34 years later, Landis says that his and Jackson’s initial vision has come full circle. He also co-wrote the script with Jackson, who had been intrigued by the title character’s metamorphosis in Landis’ 1981 film An American Werewolf in London. The short was directed by John Landis ( National Lampoon’s Animal House, Trading Places). With its nearly 14-minute running time and feature film aesthetics, Thriller redefined the traditional video when it opened at the Avco Theatre in Los Angeles in 1983 for a sold-out three-week run.
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