whoa!! i had no idea this site existed! it's great!
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The script is already scanned and available to download from horrorscreenplays.blogspot.com.
Give a thousand monkeys a thousand laptops and they'd all be writing their stupid opinions on IMDB.

@disarmingarcticamusic if you've scanned a copy of the script, please let us know in a new thread! i'm sure there are many people who would be interested in reading it, myself included.
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I own the script for Martin. I purchased it through the discount list over at Script Shack for $2.99 last spring. It's since been taken off of the list. No worries though. I WILL eventually upload it and distribute through out the net once I fix my scanner.
The draft I own seems to be a shooting script (the scenes are numbered, etc). If everything on the page was filmed then it would appear that a significant amount of dialogue was shot but did not make the final cut.
The most notable scenes present in the script but absent from Martin include:
-an extended scene at the beginning where Martin gets into an argument with a businessman on the train.

• an addendum to the ending where two detectives visit Cuda (in the script he's called Tata Voda) at the butcher shop to ask questions about Martin's disappearance. Cuda tells them that Martin ran away and the detectives leave.
  That's all I can remember.
  I'd imagine those two sequences alone would tally up about fifteen minutes worth of missing footage.

Why don't you just tell us the differences between the book and film is?
"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone" Oh Dae-su (Oldboy)

I could enlighten you, but that would destroy your pleasure in hunting down a copy for yourself, just like I did. Ebay is where I acquired mine, it won't take long for you to find one, and you'll be very glad you did. I must say I feel a pang of envy that you recently saw Martin at a theatre in New York, sadly I have only seen the film once on a big screen and that was many years ago.
Happy Hunting..

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If any of you people still read books seek out the novel, you will then know exactly what is missing. I own an impressive Martin collection including original cinema poster, soundtrack, six editions of the book, one of which is signed by the great man himself, original video and DVDs. Along with Day of the Dead, Martin is my favourite George Romero film.

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every popular man has a long list of people that hate him and want to hurt him. It's human nature.

Thanks for the details. It's pretty obvious that significant sections of this film are missing because it's very choppy at times. I loved it, but I wish it were longer.

I can't remember if he told me what it was like, but I believe Romero said in the commentary that there was more dialogue in that restroom scene, for one. I think the entire movie was in black and white, too.

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That's a very memorable scene with your professor, polyester-queen! Did he describe that longer cut of the film and did he ever find the Travel section?

They talk about it on the commentary. Romero and Savini screened it once and it was a black and white version of the film with a lot of narration by Martin. Romero guesses it might have been an inside job. I'm hoping it turns up someday though I doubt anyone still alive knows its whereabouts. The person probably died and the stuff was either thrown out or is sitting in someones garage.
I just wonder what the person did with the print after stealing it. I find it hard to believe they just sat on it and never screened it. What were they planning to do with it? They just stole the print and nothing else? For what purpose? Never demanded a ransom. I wonder if t was someone who watched it at the screening.

One of my professors was in this movie (very small role - he was the guy sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper in the public restroom) and he told me he went to a screening of the longer cut, so it did exist.

It could be the film's own marketing strategy. A little legend to add the hype. A lot of people in entertainment seem to be lying about something and the lie seems gorgeous. I'm not saying Romero is lying, but to me it kinda looks that way, from what I read. Then again I should check out the film.

A lot of movies get lost over time. Especially obscure movies like this. I doubt we'll ever seen the alternate cut. It's a damn shame things like this happen.

I stole it! HAHAHAHA!
No but for real, why would someone steal a film and not try to sell it. And if someone had bought it, why did they not release it publicly?
Maybe the person who stole the film thought the film would be big someday equaling lots of money in his pocket when he sold it.
It just doesn't make sense.
Or maybe the person who stole it died and hid the film somewhere that nobody else knew
Or:
Maybe the was destroyed in a house fire
Or:
Maybe the person stole the film because he hated George and/or his movies and destroyed it.
Or:
Maybe it really never existed.
Maybe.

I remember Romero stated that the black and white footage in the film is in color and there is a narrator heard through out the movie! It would be so cool to check it out, but I doubt it still survives.

I remember a interview with Romero saying there was more of the fashback footage. I like the film the way it is, but It would be cool to see the other footage.

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didnt realize it had been stoleninteresting
-Jacob
Don't touch it, Jack! You don't know where it's been!

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