David Fincher’s PANIC ROOM Getting a 4K UHD Release

David Fincher’s 2002 home invasion thriller Panic Room is finally getting a 4K UHD released on SteelBook, Blu-ray, and Digital on February 18 via Sony.

The film was restored in 4K and that process was supervised by the director with Dolby Vision/HDR and Dolby Atmos audio.

This is such a great movie! I loved the direction and the visual style. It is a very unique home invasion thriller and one of the best that’s ever been made. I’m looking forward to watching it in 4K!

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 also in the works.