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    John A. Russo's original Return Script?

    Does anyone know if Russo's original script for Return of the Living Dead is available online anywhere? I'd be interested to see how different it is from O'Bannon's final script. Obviously it'd be closer to the original than the movie that actually came out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ElectricFire169 View Post
    Does anyone know if Russo's original script for Return of the Living Dead is available online anywhere? I'd be interested to see how different it is from O'Bannon's final script. Obviously it'd be closer to the original than the movie that actually came out.

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    I don't think there was a script? Surely it was a book?

    eg: - http://memorabilia.homepageofthedead.com/?id=315
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I don't think there was a script? Surely it was a book?

    eg: - http://memorabilia.homepageofthedead.com/?id=315
    No I read he did write a script based on the book, but when O'Bannon was signed on he wrote his own script and that was the script that was produced and that's what you see in the finished film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ElectricFire169 View Post
    No I read he did write a script based on the book, but when O'Bannon was signed on he wrote his own script and that was the script that was produced and that's what you see in the finished film.
    Ohh! My bad! I see what you mean now!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Ohh! My bad! I see what you mean now!
    xD no harm done
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    I'd love to read it too.
    Apparently, Children of the Living Dead is a sequel to Russo's original Return of the Living Dead story (the novel).

    Might indicate how bad it is...
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    I'd love to read it too.
    Apparently, Children of the Living Dead is a sequel to Russo's original Return of the Living Dead story (the novel).

    Might indicate how bad it is...
    I wouldn't pin Children on Russo. The 30th Anniversary edition of NOTLD, sure. But Children I wouldn't say that Russo was totally to blame for that one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ElectricFire169 View Post
    I wouldn't pin Children on Russo. The 30th Anniversary edition of NOTLD, sure. But Children I wouldn't say that Russo was totally to blame for that one.
    Perhaps not the quality of the filmmaking, but the plot was his. At least I think it was...
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    Perhaps not the quality of the filmmaking, but the plot was his. At least I think it was...
    I hope the atrocious dialogue at least wasn't his.
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