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Post-apocalyptic Future | Virus
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Several versions of the film are in distribution. The official US version is 76 minutes long. There is a European/UK (Polygram) version that is 102 minutes long. Director/writer Albert Pyun has said in interviews he intends to restore and release a 110 minutes Director's Cut restoration of the film. This version is set entirely in Romania and has only a minor virus aspect in its plot.
Stylistically, director Albert Pyun wanted to create a real time experience and shot the film as a news crew might cover a war. There was less reliance on narrative and traditional movie plotting, with the film being more akin to a documentary style, where action revealed the story and character. Pyun wanted longer takes with less coverage for editing to give the audience a "you-are-there" feeling.
The film was heavily re-edited and reshot under orders of Bob Weinstein of Dimension Pictures. The major changes installed by Weinstein were resetting the film from Romania to Boston, U.S.A. and making the virus infection the principal plot device. Future Rogue Pictures president, Andrew Rona, supervised the re-edit for Dimension Pictures. The rewrites for the reshoots were done by Rand Ravich who would later create the short lived TV series "Life".
The film takes place in 2007.
Director Albert Pyun shot Nemesis 4 in between taking part in reshoots for this movie.
"[first lines] Delon: No one saw it coming. We were all looking out for big things. A nuclear accident, another Chernobyl... As the Russian republic split apart, no one knew who was responsible for what. While they were trying to figure it out, something leaked, something small. It rolled through eastern Europe moving west like a giant wave of death. They called it virulent microphage. Title Card: Boston 2007 A.D. Delon: When the United States saw the potential for the disease on its home shores, it put the recent immigrant population into quarantine camps. My husband Martin was one of those immigrants, so we interred with the rest of the masses. It was only supposed to be for a few months, but by the time Martin was killed our baby was a young boy, and the camp had become his home. There were two worlds, the sick, and the healthy. No one wants in, and no one gets out."
"Delon: [narrating] No one gets in, and no one gets out. Unless you have a passport. And they're almost impossible to get. There are only two ways to get them. One way is to go into a government service, try to stay clean and healthy, and earn your way out. The other is the black market. [buys fake passport from unscrupulous-looking man] Delon: But unlawful possession is punishable by death."
