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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman  ***COFFIN JOE UPDATE***
The upcoming Arrow Video UK Coffin Joe releases still happening according to James Flower:
“I'm going to give Don (May) the benefit of the doubt and hope someone misquoted him, but the above simply isn't true - the Coffin Joe negatives weren't destroyed in the archive fire (they were in a totally different building), the project isn't cancelled and we are still using the negatives to restore the majority of the features, which are being scanned in Brazil. (The negatives for some of the earlier films have degraded over time, so we will mostly be using interpositives made in the 1990s for these instead. In any event, they'll look better than they ever have done.) Don't expect it to be released in the immediate future - certainly not before the end of 2022 - but fear not Zé do Caixão fans, he will rise again on Arrow Video!â€
I have no idea what he is referring to at the start of the piece - I have not been able to find any quotes credited to Don May with regards to Coffin Joe films |
Apparently this was said years ago as the reason why Synapse hadn't upgraded the movies to BR. It's probably what DM was told and believed at the time. Someone is probably anecdotally repeating this and people are thinking its something recent. I have no doubt if DM had known the negatives had survived he would have tried to access them.