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It's probably real bad. no one wants to release on dvd.


Ok I get it now. 7 years and no dvd release? no one wants to touch it. probably not gonna be a money maker.

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To be blunt for a second, you're an idiot. Post production in a movie costs money, and this is a period film set in the seventies, which means licensing fees, which can be incredibly expensive.

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Get a loan from a bank, moron.

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If you are so hard up for cash, or so poor of a film producer, that you cannot get 'post-production' completed for more than 7 years, you have no business being in the movie business

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The director used to pop up on this board every once and a while as well as some of his supporters. It was the same stuff over-and-over about "it taking time and money" to get a movie released. Somebody somewhere did something wrong, because there was actually interest in this movie, and movies with less publicity get released.

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Or maybe it became the director's baby. There are things one does for money and things one does out of passion. Sometimes really good people can work for little money if the director convinces them of the project. There are few people in the business who are cynical enough to resist a lovable project someone invests all his passion it. So you wait for the right people to have time for the post-production because "money projects" of course have higher priority. This way all the production steps which normally happen simultaniously are stretched and a lot of time is just spent waiting for other steps to get finished first. The whole money issue plays into that - options run out because of deadlines and so on. So it is easy to lose the momentum when the thing is not powered by a big studio but just the passion of a few people (who have daily jobs besides it).

Reading some of the credits included the director cashed in quite a bunch of favours to get the project that far and does not want to waste it on a half-assed straight-to-video release. Which can be a good sign, since it means he has not given up yet. Or a bad sign because it means he will drown his baby rather than releasing it unfinished.

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Having seen a work in progress screening at the Michigan Theater in 2013, I can tell you it is an excellent film. If it ever gets a theatrical release, I would be surprised if it doesn't become a huge surprise hit like Lego Movie was.

That being said, there were a lot of visual effect shots that were not finished. More than you would think since a lot was simply for backgrounds or set extension, mostly to recreate the look of something. That takes time and won't stand out as special effects.

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Have they thought about using kickstarter?

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Maybe once Star Wars becomes a special franchise again after the new movie the story of this movie will make sense enough for someone to found it.

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Having seen a work in progress screening at the Michigan Theater in 2013, I can tell you it is an excellent film.

Well...I guess it must have been re-edited. i saw a "work-in-progress" in 2007 at Celebration 4 and it left me cold. I went in wanting to love it. And it was just flat and boring. i wish I could remember details but it has been 10 years ago. I hope it is better than I remember it was.

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Why not just put it on Netflix?

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