Thanks to Scamp for this link. I dunno how he knew I was a Romero fan, but there you go.
I was watching the Dawn CE and listening to Romero’s commentary track, and he mentioned having real problems finding the funds to shoot his new script – I think the amount he was after to do justice to the ideas was around $30-40 million. He said he could scale back to about $14 million, but going lower would really harm the film, and from what was said, he was being offered a lot less than that. I don’t know if the Dawn remake helped him along or whether Universal just took a risk, but here’s hoping for another classic.
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