Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King is finally getting the Blu-ray treatment and will be released on November 8th. At this time no specs or features for the Blu-ray release have been announced.
The Fisher King (Gilliam’s first film made in the US) tells the story of shock jock Jack whose callous remarks on the air lead to a brutal massacre by one of his listeners. Years later, Jack is washed up and a shell of the man he used to be. One drunken evening he comes across a homeless man named Perry whose life was also destroyed by the massacre in far more devastating ways. Could this tenuous and unlikely friendship mean redemption for both men?
With a fantastic cast including Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl (in an Oscar winning role!) and Amanda Plummer (you even get Tom Waits in a cameo role!), The Fisher King offers you everything you would want from a Terry Gilliam film. The auteur was truly at the top of his game when he made this film and I for one am super excited to see this film in high definition.
