A Story That Could Have Been Told Better
After the failed endeavor to make a cinematic statement, Hedren laid the foundation for The Roar Foundation in 1983. She became outspoken on her stance of being against owning carnivores, after learning from her experiences during Roar filming.
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Despite being a commercial and cinematic (for the most parts) failure, Roar was an effort that had the right motivation, just not the right implementation. Marshall died in 2010 from brain cancer, but both always maintained that if they were to do it all over again, they would do a lot of things very differently.