I’ve never really thought about it, but there are plenty of scenes in Romero’s original masterpiece, Dawn of the Dead, that would go over fantastic if viewed through the red and blue lenses of a pair of 3-D glasses. I won’t lie to you. I LOVE 3-D. It’s a gimmick that I wish I could apply to every movie. It’s not often these days that you get to see a movie in 3-D. It’s expensive to produce, there’s the overhead of all these god damn glasses to buy and hand out. It’s just not particularly economic but Fango found out from Dawn ‘78 and ‘04 producer Richard Rubenstein that In-Three, Inc. a California based company that specializes in the “dimensionalization” of movies is hard at work making Dawn of the Dead a true stereographic experience.
From Fango:
“When Mike Messina [another producer on the DAWN redux] and I began to investigate using In-Three’s technique, I was very skeptical,” Rubinstein tells Fango. “I couldn’t see how it could be used without re-editing George’s film, which I was not going to do. I was also concerned that converting a 29-year-old movie would not be competitive qualitatively with the new 3-D live-action features being shot today. I was wrong in both cases. George’s DAWN OF THE DEAD can be reformatted into 3-D without any editing, and the image looks spectacular! As it stands now, it will take about a year to complete the conversion of the whole film.” Indeed, In-Three’s work has been hailed by George Lucas, James Cameron and Peter Jackson, among others.
Rubenstein is involved with some questionable shit, like a sequel to Dawn (that is not Day of the Dead, apparently) and ANOTHER adaptation of Frank Herbert’s unfilmable sci-fi novel, Dune, but this is some seriously exciting news. There isn’t a chance in hell that the movie will play around me, but we at Cinema S are going through the motions presently to book genre engagements in our particular locale. Details to come on that. In the meantime, Dawn of the Dead 3-D is planned for a 2009 release.
May 15, 2008 6:15 am
Sign me up man, I so want to see that!
May 15, 2008 9:16 am
I think that everything should be in 3-D.
May 15, 2008 5:36 pm
I actually went to see Beowulf in 3D just to see the new technology they have out there these days. And although Beowulf was kind of a crap film, the 3D elements were at moments jaw dropping. Can’t wait to see what they’re gonna do with this. The only thing thats weird about the new 3D experience is that the glasses they give you now make you look like Joe Jackson.
August 6, 2009 3:43 pm
It looks as if this project has been canceled. There is no mention of it on In-Three, Inc’s site.