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George Romero Raves About ‘Night of the Living Dead’ 4K Restoration; “Definitive Version”
We will finally see the original zombie classic as it was meant to be seen.
Over the years, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead has been painstakingly restored and even colorized on a handful of occasions, as well as re-released so many times by so many companies that the full list would make your head spin. But here in 2016, just shy of 50 years after the film was originally released, the definitive restoration has finally taken place.
Working with the original negatives, the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation have just returned the film to its full, original glory, and the brand new 4K digital restoration will be shown at MoMA this Saturday night, November 12th. The sold out screening is to date the second to take place, with the Romero-introduced debut held on November 5th.
Speaking with The Verge, Romero and Russ Streiner raved about the restoration.
Said Streiner, who produced the film:
The intention of the restoration was not to vacuum up all the dust particles. More than the images themselves, we wanted to restore what the images were trying to tell. It shouldn’t be clean and pristine. It should look how it felt 48 years ago, and the professionals did exactly that.
Romero added:
What we have now, for good or for bad, is exactly what I shot. This is closer than anything we’ve seen to the definitive version of the film. It’s in the right format, 1.33:1, and that’s never been seen before either.
The Verge noted, “the 48-year-old film looks like it could’ve been shot earlier this year.”
No word yet on when, or if, the 4K restoration will hit home video. Stay tuned.
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”
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