Hello. Well, after years of development and research, we unveiled the teaser trailer to our documentary surrounding George A. Romero's unmade Resident Evil film.
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George A. Romero's Resident Evil documentary
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Thank you. Yeah, we intentionally cut it a certain way to focus on mood, rather than explicitly show off the documentary. They'll be a full trailer in the summer, which will show off some of the interviews and general concept of the doc.
Also, where did you see CGI at?
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.
It is out in North America now. Also on Apple TV. European release will be in February.
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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.
Also Bran, just wanted to say thank you to both you and Rombie for sharing another plot synopsis of McElroy's first draft in your documentary. I did read couple more from other people who read it at the Romero archive, and now we more or less know entire story of it.
Just wanted to ask couple questions about those future plans for new edit of the documentary, if you don't mind;
Will you be using anything from the chapter about McElroy's Resident Evil from "Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and Remakes", book by Jason Jenkins? I haven't read it myself, but apparently it has some more info about it, and i guess interview with McElroy...? The only time i ever heard him even mentioning his Resident Evil, since those old Fangoria and Starlog interviews from 1997, was in this stream he did with WeWatchedAMovie guys couple years ago. At about 1:02:08, he said how producer Robert Kulzer was the one who hired him to write the script, and he does mention how he did "the first pass, about couple drafts". So who knows, maybe those we know about were really the only drafts;
I suppose the reason why you didn't mentioned Jamie Blanks's version was also due to legal issues. Of course, there is not really that much to say about it anyway, but will you still include anything?
Thanks for the material. I'll check that stuff out and dissect it for any possible inclusion in the Director's Cut.
We didn't include anything about Jamie Blanks because we reached out to him and he himself told us that there was nothing. He went and had a meeting with Constantin to write and direct, pitched them a general idea on what he would do and that was it. There was never a script or even a treatment written, just a quick meeting. I believe there were two people that claimed they wrote a script for Jamie Blanks but I think he said it wasn't true. Don't quote me on that, it's been a few years since Rombie spoke to him.
We didn't include anything about Jamie Blanks because we reached out to him and he himself told us that there was nothing. He went and had a meeting with Constantin to write and direct, pitched them a general idea on what he would do and that was it. There was never a script or even a treatment written, just a quick meeting. I believe there were two people that claimed they wrote a script for Jamie Blanks but I think he said it wasn't true. Don't quote me on that, it's been a few years since Rombie spoke to him.