Overview: For more than 50 years, it’s been called “endlessly inventive” (The Guardian), “audaciously bonkers” (Frame Rated) and “unlike any movie you’ve ever seen” (B&S About Movies). Now experience the “weird gem that needs to be celebrated” (Mondo Bizarro) in UHD for the first time ever: In this premier adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel, writer/director/production designer Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DEVIL’S RAIN) unleashes Moorcock’s lethal dandy genius Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch of Hitchcock’s FRENZY and Polanski’s MACBETH) into a mind-melting conspiracy of mad scientists, pinball nuns and immortal ambisexuals bent on world domination.

Jenny Runacre (THE PASSENGER), Sterling Hayden (THE KILLING) and Harry Andrews (THE NIGHTCOMERS) co-star in this “stylish acid comedy” (Boston Phoenix) – also known as LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal, with 6+ hours of Special Features that include audio commentaries, video essays and a revealing new on-camera interview with Michael Moorcock.

4K Blu-ray Review: Satire comes no darker, meaner or more malignantly funny than this strange, bold, brutally on-target end-of-the-world lampoon based on Michael Moorcock’s corrosively sardonic cult novels about hipster anti-hero supreme Jerry Cornelius. Jon Finch (the sullen, untrustworthy lead cat in Roman Polanski’s magnificent Macbeth) is stone cold aces as Cornelius, a brilliant, carefree, easygoing and dry-humored bon vivant rich dude who gets involved with ruthless corporate tigress Jenny Runacre.

Runacre wants to mate with irresistible stud muffin Cornelius in order to produce a New Messiah who will save the planet, which has really gone to seed, from impending mass destruction. Assisting Jerry on his perilous mission are a striking trio of horridly grotesque caricatures of specific establishment types, each one expertly hammed to colorful perfection by a well-chosen character actor: Sterling Hayden doing a deft reprise of his batty army general from Dr. Strangelove as a salty warmonger general, Patrick Magee as a melancholy professor, and George Coulouris as a cold-hearted, unscrupulous scientist are every bit as deliciously wicked and enjoyably broad as they should be.

Adeptly written, directed and designed in an appropriately baroque and garish style by Robert Fuest, The Final Programme savagely sends up pride, greed, apathy (all the characters treat the world’s unavoidable end like it was a minor, harmless inconvenience!), religious hypocrisy and omnipotence, self-indulgence taken to an appalling hedonistic extreme (y’know, partying your life away with an endless stream of sex, drugs and booze), and, most delightfully, even pretentious, self-important, overly solemn science fiction pictures (the uproarious conclusion, with the New Messiah turning out to be a wisecracking, blue-fingernailed apeman who impersonates Humphrey Bogart, mercilessly mocks the beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey). Special Features:
UHD:
Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985
Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott
Trailer

Blu-ray:
Audio Commentary With Andrew Nette, Co-Editor Of Dangerous Visions And New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 To 1985
Archival Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest And Actress Jenny Runacre, Moderated By Author/Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott
A Brighter Apocalypse – Michael Moorcock On Jerry Cornelius And The Final Programme
Performance Independent – Interview With Producer Sanford Lieberson
From Pythons To Programmes – A Conversation With Producer John Goldstone
Programmer Of Immortality – Jenny Runacre In Conversation With Kier-La Janisse, Author Of House Of Psychotic Women
Dark Moons And New Worlds – Interview With James Riley, Author Of The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds And The End Of The Sixties
Androgynous Android – Video Essay By Costume Historian Elissa Rose
Archival Interview With Jenny Runacre
A Feast Of Fuest With Kim Newman, Author Of Nightmare Movies
Italian Title Sequence
Trailer
TV Spot

Official Purchase Link