'Dawn of the Dead' in 3D.. The Original One…
Okay, no complaints about 3D this time
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I know I read about this last week, but I apologize to the site that posted it because I can't remember and I am too lazy to hit the Google button. However, The Hollywood Reporter tells us that George A. Romero's horror classic (my opinion) Dawn of the Dead is going to be given the 3D treatment.
The work on the 1978 feature will be done by In-Three and this will be the second time ever that a legacy 2D film has been turned into a 3D feature, the other being the wildly successful holiday re-release Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a film I couldn't finish in 2D and would never even try watching in 3D. However, Dawn of the Dead is another story.
I promised I won't bash 3D this time around and I will stick to that, regular readers already know my opinion so we can skip over that. Romero's Dawn of the Dead may have some imagery that will really work in a 3D feature, especially that one shotgun to the head shot (you all know which one I am talking about).
Here's my concern (not complaint) over this. I have seen two movies that were originally made as 2D then converted to 3D and that was Sony's Open Season and Disney's Meet the Robinsons. From what I can tell this is not traditional 3D in that it wasn't originally made to be shown in 3D such as how Paramount's Beowulf was. I bring this up because I noticed a major difference in the quality.
Beowulf was picture perfect in its presentation whereas the two converted features didn't necessarily seem to line-up (if that makes any sense). In both, the screening of Open Season and Meet the Robinsons, my eyes began to hurt and focusing on the picture became to be a great ordeal. Perhaps the 3D lurkers we have that visit the site and then runaway can shed a little light on what I am talking about because I don't know that much about the technology.
Word is that Dawn of the Dead could be finished as early as this year, but there is no word on when it would actually be released in theaters.
Apparently the process costs anywhere from $50-$100,000 per minute, depending on the complexity of the imagery in terms of visual effects and other elements. Dawn of the Dead is just over two hours long, so taking the middle ground of $75k we are talking about approximately $9,450,000 for the 126 minute feature. On top of marketing costs and other production costs it seems like a risky effort, but I know I would be interested in at least giving it a look.
What say you?
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I would like to see "Aliens" in 3D. Also the Nightmare before Christmas 3D was pretty flat. Many people in the audience seemed bored by it. Seriously, I could hardly tell it was in 3D. Scenes that would have been awesome were missed. Witches should have flown right into the laps of movie go-ers instead they hardly make it out of the screen.
Too bad.