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Current Talk '24 I / Re: hoDS/NoDS DVD Release?
« on: July 12, 2012, 03:48:37 AM »
I could be wrong, but given how this has played out it seems as if, against their own beliefs and their own desire to move forward, someone in WB's video division was somehow persuaded to hold off releasing the original films on DVD/Blu-ray because the Depp/Burton film was going to be made. And if the person who did the persuading was Pierson, it's certainly no secret that he can be persuasive. However, in truth they were fairly indifferent toward the Depp/Burton film, they didn't care if it did well or not, and they never really wanted the original films to be associated with it - and in the end they finally decided to go with their core belief that they should just release the original films in their original form using the transfer they had already done before the Depp/Burton film was even announced and let the chips fall where they may. We could certainly argue that their actions are exceptionally shortsighted. But it does seem as if much of that is quite possibly how things went down.