Whenever a film exists in a variety of versions, it’s a good bet there’s a juicy behind-the-scenes story of an uncompromising director battling with a cabal of bottom-line-obsessed producers hellbent on transforming the surly artist’s work into a product with broad commercial appeal.
Given George A.
Romero’s agonizing history of Hollywood heartbreak, you’d expect “Dawn of the Dead,” which exists in three distinctively different versions, to be one of those tumultuous tales.
But while the filmmaker certainly had a rough go of it with censors in just about every country that exhibited his movie, this isn’t a “Brazil” situation, where the studio attempted to…The post A Guide to Every Version of Dawn of the Dead appeared first on /Film.
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