<s>On November 18, 2022, Sony Music released Thriller 40, a 40th-anniversary reissue of Thriller including a bonus disc containing outtakes from the original recording sessions.[168] The 2022 reissue was followed by a 2023 documentary.</s>
''Thriller 40'' is a reissue of the ''Thriller'' album, with a bonus disc containing recording session outtakes, released on November 18, 2022. A companion documentary film was released to Showtime / Paramount+ on December 2, 2023, directed by [[Nelson George]], the film focuses on studio stories from told by the original artists involved in the 1983 recording sessions.In anticipation of the fortieth anniversary, Anthony Marinelli (synthesizers) and Steven Ray (executive assistant to Quincy Jones), hosted a music focused podcast