This film was supposed to have gotten a theatrical release
this year. I’ll be damned if I saw any evidence of that, though. We went from
fairly frequent trailers for this to just… nothing. Until it popped up for home
video release, this might as well have not even come out over here. While the
current Hollywood structure is turning this scenario into what looks to be a
regularity (what with Disney shelving so many of Fox’s releases after buying
them out), this still doesn’t make sense.
This is Robert Zemeckis, one of the
vanguards of American cinema and a filmmaker who has always been on the cutting
edge of what film technology is capable of; how did his latest feature
end up being left at the wayside? Well, while I’m certainly not going to make
the argument that this film never should’ve have seen release, I will admit
that I at least understand why this film would have been… deprioritised, as it
were.
