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11 Movies George Romero ALMOST Made · Midnight Movie Theatre

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  Speaker 1: George Ramiro has made some of the greatest zombie movies
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  Speaker 1: of all time with the Dead franchise, Night of the
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  Speaker 1: Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead.
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  Speaker 1: He's made one of my favorite non traditional vampire movies
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  Speaker 1: with Martin, which pretty much the whole time in that
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  Speaker 1: movie you're not sure if Martin is a vampire or not.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly likes to drink blood and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: lives like a delusional lifestyle throughout the movie. And he's
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  Speaker 1: also made one of the most iconic anthology flicks with
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  Speaker 1: Creep Show. Something that is nearly as interesting as his
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  Speaker 1: filmography are the movies that I already do that. Something
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  Speaker 1: that's nearly as interesting as his filmography are the movies
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  Speaker 1: that he was attached to that ended up falling through
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  Speaker 1: for one reason or another. Number one is The Stand.
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  Speaker 1: He was officially attached to this movie. Him and Stephen
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  Speaker 1: King were in talks in the late seventies early eighties.
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  Speaker 1: King wanted Romero to direct Too Fuck Me. In the
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  Speaker 1: late seventies and early eighties, King wanted Romero to direct
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  Speaker 1: an adaptation of his novel, and this fell through. Because
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  Speaker 1: The Stand is always going to be a hard story
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  Speaker 1: to adapt. At the time, it sounds like no one
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  Speaker 1: was really willing to put up the money for what
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  Speaker 1: would have to be a multi movie epic. Romeiro was
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  Speaker 1: looking to do right by the Stand and include a
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  Speaker 1: large cast, expensive sets, great special effects, and this ultimately
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  Speaker 1: fucked me. Romiro was looking to do right by the
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  Speaker 1: Stand and include take three. We'll try it again. Romiro
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  Speaker 1: was looking to do right by the Stand, and this
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  Speaker 1: would ultimately include a large cast, expensive sets, great special effects,
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  Speaker 1: which led to a budget that scared studios away. It's
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  Speaker 1: too bad because even though the Stand isn't a zombie flick,
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  Speaker 1: I could see it feeling kindred to Romiro's first three
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  Speaker 1: Dead movies. We eventually got the ninety four mini series
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  Speaker 1: with Mick gear directing, which I really enjoy and I
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  Speaker 1: can't complain about. I think mcderris garris. I think mcgarris
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  Speaker 1: did a great job. I recently rewatched the ninety four
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  Speaker 1: mini series and after reading the book for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: Although it has its flaws, I feel like it's a
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  Speaker 1: really I feel like it's a mostly faithful adaptation of
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  Speaker 1: what would be a challenge for anybody to put on
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  Speaker 1: the screen. And we also have the twenty twenty limited
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  Speaker 1: series which came out as one of the Scars guards
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  Speaker 1: in it. I can't remember which one, and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen that one yet, so I don't know. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: mixed things about it, but you know, I got to
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  Speaker 1: see it for myself at some point. Number two it
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  Speaker 1: and this is another one that he was officially attached
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  Speaker 1: to for a little while. Before we go into this,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I'm a huge fan of the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight mini series. It's probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: more important movies I saw when I was growing up.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of those gateway to horrors
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of people, especially that grew up in
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  Speaker 1: the nineties and early two thousands and whatnot. Tim Curry
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  Speaker 1: has pennywise scared the piss out of me. The story
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  Speaker 1: behind this is a little more frustrating than The Stand
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  Speaker 1: because they apparently got further along into talks of making
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  Speaker 1: this a reality before it was ultimately shut down. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that I didn't know until I started getting
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  Speaker 1: into reading more Stephen King books, and I just recently
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  Speaker 1: read it as well as The Stand, And when I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of researching these things that popped up that
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  Speaker 1: Romiro was actually originally in talks with directing both of them,
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, damn, that's really interesting. So I
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  Speaker 1: started looking more into this, and that's where we kind
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  Speaker 1: of came into this video. So I had no clue
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  Speaker 1: that he was attached to it, or I had no
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  Speaker 1: clue that he was attached to the original adaptation of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of other people don't fuck me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure this is probably fairly common among horror fans,
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  Speaker 1: because this is just something I've never heard of when
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  Speaker 1: discussing Stephen King's stuff, especially, I don't know, I would
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  Speaker 1: assume that this would have come up and talks with
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  Speaker 1: like Stephen King movies at this point, but this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time I've ever heard of it. And at
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  Speaker 1: this point, Stephen King and Romero had already made Creep
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  Speaker 1: Show together, so Stephen King trusted him with this adaptation.
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  Speaker 1: ABC wanted to adapt it as a television event. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: ABC wanted to adapt it as a television event, and
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be something that was going and
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  Speaker 1: originally they were looking at an eight to ten hour
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  Speaker 1: mini series. This would have allowed more of the Losers
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  Speaker 1: Club childhood story more adult material, greater fidelity to the novel. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: we'd get more time with Darry itself as a character.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been far closer to King's book than
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  Speaker 1: the eventual nineteen ninety version. Obviously, because we know how
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  Speaker 1: things shook out, ABC kind of started to second guess this.
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  Speaker 1: They thought the eight to ten hour production would be
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  Speaker 1: a little too expensive the content that's in the book.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine once they kind of really dug into that,
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  Speaker 1: they probably realized we can't do this as a TV
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  Speaker 1: series and keep it completely faithful to the book. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of child murder in it, like that was
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  Speaker 1: something that was kind of tougher to get through in
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  Speaker 1: the first I can't remember how many chapters, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the first part of the book is literally
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  Speaker 1: just a series of kids, like little kids getting brutally murdered,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like fuck, and it's not all by Pennywise.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it's like by their parents and shit, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just kind of like it's not a fun read
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  Speaker 1: at first. Once you get past that and you kind
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  Speaker 1: of cruise through the Dairy story and the Losers Club,
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  Speaker 1: that stuff's a lot more fun. I will say, even
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  Speaker 1: the adult stuff in the book is a lot more
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  Speaker 1: fun than how it usually turns out, and the film
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  Speaker 1: adaptations as well. So obviously, with that being said, with
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about child murders, there's a lot of graphic violence,
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  Speaker 1: there's also a decent amount of sexual material. And not
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  Speaker 1: only is it just sexual material, it's with the kids,
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  Speaker 1: like the kids are doing sex with each other. I
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  Speaker 1: think most people know about the orgy scene at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the book. I feel like that comes up
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  Speaker 1: all the time, so obviously I don't even like, why
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  Speaker 1: would they even consider that. I don't think they would
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  Speaker 1: consider that. It's like something that I feel like is
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  Speaker 1: just universally always going to be left out in any
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  Speaker 1: adaptation from the book to the movie. Right, nobody's going
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  Speaker 1: to take that serious. So I'm assuming the ABC and
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  Speaker 1: the TV exacts or whatever I already knew, like that's
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  Speaker 1: not happening. We're not having sex. There's also like this
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  Speaker 1: other scene that I feel like nobody talks about as
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  Speaker 1: much because it's maybe not as jarring. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: scene in the book where Henry Bowers and one of
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  Speaker 1: his like cronies are at the junk yard together and
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  Speaker 1: they have their pants off, and they're like lighting farts
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  Speaker 1: on fire, and Bev's watching this and his buddy who's
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  Speaker 1: like a sociopath that they talk about, I can't think
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  Speaker 1: of his name right now at the top of my head.
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  Speaker 1: But this other kid just starts like whacking Henry's dong off,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just like out of nowhere, just like trying
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  Speaker 1: to suck his dong and stuff. And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never heard anybody mention that before
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  Speaker 1: when it came to this book, just the orgy scene,
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of threw me off too, where I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this is kind of fucked up too, Like
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  Speaker 1: these these kids just trying to suck this other kid's dick. Like,
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  Speaker 1: get that this fucking bullshit out of the book. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think in Stephen King didn't need to put
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  Speaker 1: that in the book? Fucking weird. There's also, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: on top of that, there's a decent amount of racism
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  Speaker 1: in the book and abuse, so I think there's also
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  Speaker 1: like a dog murder. I mean, throw all those things
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  Speaker 1: on top of each other, I imagine. ABC was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we getting into here? The other thing about
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  Speaker 1: the book that I feel like the movies just always
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  Speaker 1: want to leave out is the cosmic horror element, which
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed after reading the book. That's one thing
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  Speaker 1: that I really wish, especially in the newer adaptations of it,
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  Speaker 1: that they could have leaned into that a little more.
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  Speaker 1: I can understand why in the nineties, with budget restraints
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  Speaker 1: and special effects the way that they were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be tough to do like a cosmic
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  Speaker 1: mind battle with a with a giant spider with a
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  Speaker 1: lady spider that's like hatching out eggs of her ass
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And you know, you got the
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  Speaker 1: the proverbial catching of the tongue, if you will, between
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  Speaker 1: the Losers and Pennywise's final form. It's it's hard to explain,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought it was really cool the way that
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  Speaker 1: they ended up the It's hard to explain, but I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was really cool the way that the book
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  Speaker 1: ends compared to any of the film adaptations. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's I think it would benefit if it's ever going
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  Speaker 1: to be remade again, and who knows, it probably will,
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  Speaker 1: that they just go straight for the book. I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like the Stand where it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to do. It'd be really
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  Speaker 1: tricky to pull off. I think you just got to
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  Speaker 1: go for it, though. You got to get the right people,
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  Speaker 1: involve the right visionaries, and just really go for the
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  Speaker 1: cosmic ending because it's awesome. So with all that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: in Romero's reputation at least, so with all that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: and the TV executives more or less looking at Romiro
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  Speaker 1: as the zombie guy, they eventually started to move in
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  Speaker 1: a different direction. They cut down the length of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they ended up making it the two part
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  Speaker 1: series that we have nowadays, and they got it. So
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  Speaker 1: they ended up cutting it down to the two part
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  Speaker 1: mini series that we have nowadays, and got Tommy Lee
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  Speaker 1: Wallace involved. And this is one of those where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. As much as I enjoy the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety mini series, I can't help but wonder what Romero's
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  Speaker 1: version of it would have looked like, especially because you
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  Speaker 1: kind of think that he would have brought in some
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  Speaker 1: of his familiar faces, like he would have had Tom
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  Speaker 1: Savini as the effects guy, possibly, which could have led
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  Speaker 1: to like a whole other could have led to a
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  Speaker 1: whole other type of scary clown movie, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people ask like, was Romero fired from this? There's
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  Speaker 1: three versions that I was reading. Romero left because he
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  Speaker 1: was busy preparing the nineteen ninety nine of a Living
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  Speaker 1: Dead remake. The second one was ABC and producers wanted
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  Speaker 1: a less graphic approach, so they went with Tommy Lee Wallace.
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  Speaker 1: And then the third version is that the reduction from
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  Speaker 1: eight to ten hours to four hours fundamentally changed the
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  Speaker 1: project and made Romero lose interest. The truth is probably
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  Speaker 1: a combination of the three. Really, if it also makes
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  Speaker 1: you wonder if this would have taken place and the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing would have changed, who would they have gotten
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  Speaker 1: to play penny Wise, because the nineteen ninety thing really
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  Speaker 1: hinges on Tim Curry's performance. In my opinion, I saw
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  Speaker 1: some of the suggestions out there, Tim Curry still on
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  Speaker 1: the list, Brad Duraff, Jeffrey Combs, Lance Hendrickson or a
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  Speaker 1: John Amplose. Those were the names that were thrown out
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  Speaker 1: there at the time, So could have been a whole
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  Speaker 1: other thing, could have been a whole other it movie.
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  Speaker 1: We have number three, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
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  Speaker 1: another well, not even gonna mention that number three, The
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  Speaker 1: Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, and this is one that
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  Speaker 1: he was also officially attached to. I don't know much
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  Speaker 1: about this one, but I feel like any chance for
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  Speaker 1: a mirror to do a King adaptation is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a missed opportunity. I haven't read this book yet, I
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  Speaker 1: do have a copy of it. Let me just grab
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  Speaker 1: it real quick. Oh God, damn it. It seems to
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  Speaker 1: be one of his shorter stories. Well, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty four pages for The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to read the last page, but that
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  Speaker 1: will picture of Stevie right there, looking pretty fucking cool
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  Speaker 1: with that leather jacket. So anyway, The Girl who Loved
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  Speaker 1: Tom Gordon, let's read the back of this and see
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. This is my first time learning about
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  Speaker 1: this book. On a six mile hike on the main
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine year old
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  Speaker 1: Trisha mcfarran went quickly tires of the constant bickering between
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  Speaker 1: her older brother Pete and her recently divorced mother. But
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  Speaker 1: when she wanders off by herself and then tries to
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  Speaker 1: catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in
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  Speaker 1: a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls,
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  Speaker 1: Tricia has only her ingenuity. Fuck me redo that as
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  Speaker 1: night falls, Tricia has only her ingenuity as a defense
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  Speaker 1: against the element, and only her courage and faith to
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  Speaker 1: withstand her mounting fears. Fuck me for solid. She tunes
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  Speaker 1: her Walkman into broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games
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  Speaker 1: and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher
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  Speaker 1: Tom Gordon, and when her radio's reception begins to fade,
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  Speaker 1: Tricia imagines that Tom Gordon is with her, protecting her
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  Speaker 1: from an all too real enemy who has left a
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  Speaker 1: trail of slaughtered animals and mangled trees in the dense
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  Speaker 1: dark woods. So that's the girl who loved Tom Gordon.
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  Speaker 1: That actually is way more interesting sounding than I expected.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is one of those books where, like,
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  Speaker 1: I got this for free, I bought some Stephen King
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  Speaker 1: books and somebody was like, you can have those one too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why that is. It kind of gave
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  Speaker 1: me the idea that like, oh, maybe this isn't one
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  Speaker 1: of those better books, you know what I mean, or
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  Speaker 1: better stories. Judging by the back of it. That actually
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  Speaker 1: sounds pretty interesting. I thought it was just going to
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  Speaker 1: be about some girl who falls in love with a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Tom Gordon and he's like a fucking evil
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  Speaker 1: little dickhead or something like that, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But that sounds actually sounds pretty good. I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to read that one soon. Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: reading a night Shift, getting through the short stories of
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  Speaker 1: Night Shift, and it has been fantastic. Number four Pet Cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: This one was strongly considered King and Romero reportedly worked
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  Speaker 1: on this one for quite a while. Timing killed this project,
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  Speaker 1: though Romero was in the middle of the movie Monkey
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  Speaker 1: Shines and producer Richard Rubinstein had a fixed production timetable
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  Speaker 1: for pet Cemetery. Mary Lambert would take over this project,
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, this is one where it's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 1: a better version of this movie. As much as I
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  Speaker 1: would love to see what Romero had in store for
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  Speaker 1: any of these, I couldn't trade this one in to
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  Speaker 1: find out, Like this is one of those where I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna keep what we got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't want one of these.
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  Speaker 1: The Grass is always greener type situations where it's like
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  Speaker 1: you get some goofball shit or something lesser than what
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  Speaker 1: we do have. With the Mary Lambert version, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the scarier movies I watched when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. The fucking Zelda character in that movie
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  Speaker 1: scared the fuck out of me. Like it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like The Shining Twins, though, whereas like where nowadays when
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  Speaker 1: I see that, I'm like, yeah, it's still scary, but
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  Speaker 1: not in the way that it was when I was
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, you know what I mean. It's more
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  Speaker 1: like disturbing and just so unnatural looking that it is
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  Speaker 1: just like kind of uncanny in a way. But at
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  Speaker 1: the time when I was a kid, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this fucking bitch is gonna pop out of the corner
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  Speaker 1: of my room and fucking kill me sometime. But it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think that was really her character in
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  Speaker 1: the movie. She's just like somebody that had like bad,
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  Speaker 1: like bad scoliosis or something like that. I haven't watched
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  Speaker 1: Pet Cemetery in a long time, and I still haven't
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  Speaker 1: read the book. It's one of those where I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not jumping into it because I kind of know that
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be the it's going to be very sad,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just the kid dying in it.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things where it's like, it's just
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  Speaker 1: tough for me to commit to a book that I
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  Speaker 1: know is going to break my heart. It's just tough
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  Speaker 1: for me to commit to a book like that that
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  Speaker 1: I know is going to be pretty upsetting. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to it eventually, though. Number five, Salem's Lot. This was
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  Speaker 1: the more early conversations, it sounds like, and was just
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  Speaker 1: somewhat considered this might be the project that had like
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  Speaker 1: the least amount of skin in the game. This might
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  Speaker 1: be the project that Romero had the least amount of
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game on. He was basically instantly turned
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  Speaker 1: off by the idea of working around TV restrictions for
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  Speaker 1: this one. The network didn't want to put out a
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  Speaker 1: feature film. They wanted a television event, of course, because
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, with these King adaptations, they always want
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  Speaker 1: to do a television event. I don't really get this,
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  Speaker 1: so that means wes violence, no gore, and more hoops
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  Speaker 1: to jump through. Luckily for the network, they found someone
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  Speaker 1: with hoop in his name for Salem's Lot, and that
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  Speaker 1: man is no other than Toby Hooper, the director of
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well as the movie Life,
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  Speaker 1: for which I recommend everybody to go see the movie
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  Speaker 1: Life for us, I think from what I've seen I
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  Speaker 1: haven't watched the original Salem's Lot yet has a very
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  Speaker 1: nospatu vibe to it. The atmosphere overall looks pretty sweet, though.
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  Speaker 1: Just this scene where the kids floating outside the window,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's got to have some of that
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  Speaker 1: early Toby Hooper charm when he still was on top
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  Speaker 1: of his game. A number six, this is the last
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  Speaker 1: Stephen King adaptation that's on this list. I think there
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  Speaker 1: were more, but I kind of just wanted to. Number
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  Speaker 1: six on the list is going to be The Long Walk,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the last Stephen King adaptation we have
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  Speaker 1: on the list. I didn't see too much about this one.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw that it was heavily considered around the
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: late eighties, So that is something to think about though.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: With The Long Walk just coming out, what was that
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: last year or the year before and doing really well
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: like it kind of makes you wonder what would a
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties version of that movie look like. I also
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: It's another one of those where I feel like Georgi
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Rameiro would have handled it really well. Obviously, the Long
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Walk is kind of referencing Vietnam, and you just kind
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: of get the idea that Romero would have been perfect
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: for that was with his zombie movies and some of
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: his other movies, having such with a lot of with
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of Romero's movies having what is it, with
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of Romero's movies symbolizing society and human nature,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I can imagine his version of The Long Walk turning
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: out really well. I just recently saw the version, the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: new version of the Long I just recently watched The
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Long Walk, and I really enjoyed it. I thought they
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: did a good job of adapting it. So now we're
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: out of the Stephen King adaptations and we've got five
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: more left. Number seven, Whine of the Fawn, and this
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: is one that would have come out in the mid
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. It's probably the most interesting what if project
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: for me, because Romero wanted this to be his first
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: feature film. Whine of the fun was described as an
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Ingmar Bergmann inspired medieval drama about two travelers in the
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: fifteenth century. The Fawn would have come out instead of
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Night of the Living Dead, we might be on a
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: completely different timeline. I would assume Night of the Living
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Dead would have been made eventually anyway. But imagine a
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: world where Night of the Living Dead doesn't get released
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and the zombie subgenre is set back decades. We might
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: not have classics like Return of the Living Dead twenty
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: eight days later or even the Walking Dead TV series.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? And I don't know if this
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: would have traveled across the pond, how this would have
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: affected things overall, But I can't imagine a world without
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the movie Dead Alive. That's the best zombie flick of
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: all time. It's the goat in my opinion. I think
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: we can all agree on that. Number eight is the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties The Mummy movie. That's right, the one with
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Brendan Fraser in it. Could you imagine not having The
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Mummy with Brendan Fraser in it? Romeiro was briefly attached
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to this one. His version was reportedly darker and more
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: horror oriented. It was ultimately turned down because Universal was
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: looking for more of an adventure film, so they got
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to Dwayne the Rock Johnson in there, and CGI just
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: asked to be a giant scorpion. What more can you
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: ask for? I think it would have been cool to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: see you. I think it would be fuck me. I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: think it would be cool to see her Romero Mummy movie.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Like just him doing any Mummy movie. I think would
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: be cool. Maybe we could have him do well. But
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm ready to trade in Brendan Fraser
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Mummy for it. But I don't think I'm ready to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: trade in Brendan Fraser and the Mummy for the George
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Romero Mummy movie. I'm sorry. I know that one's not
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a horror movie. It's kind of an action adventure movie.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I can't lose Brendan Fraser in the Mummy. It would
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: be too much. Number nine the Deep Red remake. It
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: was announced around twenty ten that Romero would be doing
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a remake of Dario Argento's classic Jallo Deep Red. This
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: is one of those movies that would be tough for
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: anyone to take on, though. I feel like it's if
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I had to make a prediction, I would just kind
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: of assume this would be one of those that would
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have gotten swept under the rug and you'd find it
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: in the DVD beIN at Walmart for five dollars and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: be like, what the fuck George Romero did a Deep
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Red remake? We'll check it out, and then it's just
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, it's whatever. Deep Red is
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: essentially a who done it? Murder mystery with plenty of
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: sleuthing and shady characters. Like many of our Genti's flicks,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: some of the most memorable parts about Deep Red are
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the visuals. There are classic scenes in this movie that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of people have probably seen, even if they
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: haven't watched the entire movie itself. One of the fuck
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: one of them may have inspired the Billy puppet from
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the Saw movies. I remember hearing that anyway. I don't
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: know if it's true or not, though, but I can
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: see it. There's one scene where a little puppet guy
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: comes out and on a trike and it's like, Okay,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is that Billy the puppet before he painted his face
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: like a juggalo? Who fucking knows. For whatever reason, the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: project fell through number ten Diamond Dead. I almost left
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: this off the list because I wanted it to be
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a clean one through ten list, but I had to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: include it. I had to include it because Uh, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: had to include it. After reading about it, I thought
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it was just going to be another piece of the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: dead friend, but when I started reading about it, it
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: had to be included. Apparently, he was in development for
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a rock and roll zombie musical described as a mix
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: between Phantom of the Paradise and the Rocky Horror Picture
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Show with George. Plus of course there's going to be
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: rock and roll George Romero zombies. Rock and Romero's what
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they call it from what I've heard, And this one
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: just kind of get financed. No one wanted to put
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: any money behind it. For whatever reason. It's hard for
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: me to believe. Didn't these motherfuckers learn anything from the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: thriller music video The World Loves Dancing Zombies? What a shame?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: What ay shame? Last, but not least, and this, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: don't know, this might be the biggest. I save this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: one for last, because this might be the biggest what
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: if on the list number eleven Resident Evil so in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, somewhere around nineteen ninety eight to two thousand.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting till these ads get done. This is fucking
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: guest ads ever. Damn get this bullshit off the TV. Already. Yeah,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my dick sucked over here, and then
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going over here in the golf club, get my
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: ass fucked nice. Yeah, and when I come back, I'm
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: gonna need to take a shower. Fucking cut that out.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Cut that shit out. So this was in talks around
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight to two thousand. The screenplay was completed.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Capcom wanted Romeo on the project after a commercial that
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: he directed for Resident Evil two, but Constantine Films rejected
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: his draft and ultimately hired Paul W. S Anderson instead.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I really would have to go back and rewatch the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Resident Evil movies. It's probably been around the time that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they came out since I've seen them, so I don't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: remember a whole lot about them. We were huge Resident
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Evil fans at my house. We were huge fans of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the Resident Evil games at my house, and I just
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: remember being pretty disappointed by the movies. Though. We were
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: huge fans of the Resident Evil games at my house,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and I just kind of remember being disappointed by the movies.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: My expectations might have been too high, though, so only
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a rewatch will tell. Romero script was apparently closer to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the video game it featured the mansion setting, which I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: think would have been a really smart choice. I can't
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: believe they left that out of there. It's like, you
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: can do a zombie movie and basically what seems to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: be like a you could do a zombie movie in
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: an impossibly large mansion. I think that would have been
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a smart choice. It's just so iconic with the early
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: video games too, and I think considering what Romero did
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: with Night of the Living Dead, I could see him
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: doing the mansion setting really well, with them basically being
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: locked into this giant mansion that's also like a what
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: like an underground fucking zombie facility or something. I can't remember.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It's been a long time since I played the Resident
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Evil games, and his movie also would have included Jill Valentine,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Chris Redfield, and all the classic monsters you can think of. Really,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the last time I played any of the Resident Evil
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: games was the original Resident Evil too. I haven't played
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the I don't know if I've ever actually finished playing
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the first Resident Evil game. I might have to go
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: back and do that sometime because I've like, we got
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to Nintendo sixty four when I was a kid, we
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: got Resident Evil too, and we played the shit out
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of it. And that's it for my George Romiro what
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: if list? I kept it down to eleven. I didn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: want to make it too long. There were quite a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: few other movies on there that I was finding, but
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I wanted to stick to the more interesting ones, at
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: least the more interesting for me. I think any of
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: these would have been really cool to see what he
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: would have done with him. There are any movies out
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: there that you think George Romiro would have done a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: great job directing, or you'd just like to see his
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: version of it, Comment them down below. Comment below who
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you would have liked to see play penny Wise if
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Romero would have done it? Comment down below who you
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: would have liked to see play penny Wise if Romero's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: version would have taken off. All right, guys, see you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: next time.