Posted by M.B. on 10/22/05 03:01

John Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:30:24 -0700, "M.B." <NoSpam@ForYou.com> wrote:

>>Perhaps he didn't have his heart in it? Perhaps he had to make a lot of
>>consessions? Perhaps it was rushed? I don't know. All I know is that
>>the Anchor Bay uber edition DVD set for the original Dawn of the Dead
>>came out September of last year. The commentaries were possibly
>>recorded 6 months before? I surmise this because the commentary with
>>the actors talk about going to the premiere of the remake. Anyway,
>>Romero talks about a script that he has for another zombie film and
>>saying that it would cost too much to make.
>
>
> hmmm....
>
> The Romero/Savini commentary is recorded well before the actors
> commentary -- remember, the anchor bay single edition with the Romero
> commentary came out in March, tied to the theatrical release of the
> remake, while the ultimate edition, with the different cuts of the
> film -- and including the actor's commentary -- came out in September,
> while the actor's commentary was recorded, obviously, in March 2004,
> when the remake premiered.
>
> Figure a minimum of four months between the time of the Romero
> commentary and the release of the first DVD, we can assume that the
> Romero commentary was done November 2003 at the latest.

Ok, I did not know that. So then he had approximately a year and a half
from the time that he made that commentary before LotD was released. My
guess then, is that after the relative success for the remake of Dawn,
Universal gave a green light to Romero's LotD. So we're looking at a
year and two or three months.

Regardless, it wasn't Romero's most inspired zombie film, but I still
dig it because I like zombie flicks.

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