Was there none at all? I was pretty confident that the door opening at 0:26 was CGI, at least.
Nope. The door was at a physical location. Everything you see was physical. No CGI in a single frame of footage. To have the door open, it was just a crew member on the other side giving it a push and diving behind the wall.
Congratulations Bran! You did a great job with it, and finally seeing it was amazing. Personally, it was also a great way to start first couple weeks of this new year, and really made my day, after going through some crap lately (nothing serious though)! Finding out more about Romero's version of Resident Evil was great of course, but hearing more about him, from people who knew him? That was what i think really made the whole documetary even better, and quite emotional at times too. And thankfully, lot of the questions me and others had for years, about both Romero's and Alan McElroy's scripts were answered, and put to rest. Yes, not all, and i'll make sure to still look for all of those no matter what (yeah, even McElroy's, lol). And Bran, i can already tell lot of other fans will love the whole documetary as well, and i wish you lot of luck with any of your future work!
Thank you. Unfortunately, the two sections we did on McElroy and Romero's scripts did not pass legal clearance and had to be completely removed. We did an 11th hour edit to try and provide something. Not very happy with those sections. We were also told to keep the documentary under 105 minutes (I snuck a few extra minutes in). Plans are in motion to return to the edit, record newly acquired interviews, and completely redo those sections and re-edit the documentary as a whole. There's some material missing, some places that need altered, and we don't have a runtime limit this time, so we're going to blow out the seams of the documentary to expand the McElroy and Romero script sections with the deeper analysis that we wanted to do from the beginning.
Director's cut of the documentary, with even more stuff? Definitely looking forward to it! Shame that you had to cut those parts, but i do like your idea about analysis of both scripts. I just wish there was some way to get you guys an access to both of McElroy's scripts, and without any restrictions, so that you can do proper comparison. I'll say this, that January 1998 draft still sounds like an improvement over May 1997 draft. I bet you that somebody at PSM must have thrown their leaked copy into a garbage years ago, not knowing what they had. Who knows how long people wouldn't know much about Romero's script, if the leaked copy of that one wasn't shared all over back in the day.