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From the Arrow/MVD press release:
On May 13th, the high tension science fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain from Oscar-winning director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), based on the novel by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Westworld), arrives in a Limited Edition release featuring a new 4K restoration on 4K UHD and hours of special features.
After a satellite crashes in the middle of a small town in New Mexico, a mysterious organism brought back from space swiftly infects and kills the residents. A team of elite scientists in protective suits arrive and discover a baby and an old man have survived. The survivors, the satellite, and the researchers are transported to a top secret underground research facility with the code name “Wildfire.” It becomes a race against time for the scientists to find a cure before the infection spreads across the planet. The movie stars Arthur Hill (Futureworld), David Wayne (The Three Faces of Eve), Kate Reid (Atlantic City), James Olsen (Amityville II: The Possession), and Paula Kelly (Soylent Green) as the heroic research team.
The special features include an audio commentary by critic Bryan Reesman, an appreciation by critic Kim Newman, The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film featuring director Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding from 2001, an interview with author Michael Crichton, highlights from the annotated and illustrated shooting script by Nelson Gidding, the theatrical trailer, TV spots, radio spots, an image gallery, and an illustrated collector’s booklet with select archive material.
Watch the trailer for The Andromeda Strain here:
https://youtu.be/MmGK95ueF7c
I remember watching this on TV as a kid, I'm guessing a lot of it went over my head. There's a great tag line in the trailer, "The picture runs over 100 minutes!. . ."
The combination of Robert Wise and Michael Crichton is a special pairing that calls out for a revisit, and it's another release packed with extras. I have to say that I love the way that Arrow is handling these new remasters of older movies.