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‘Shaun of the Dead’ Photo-a-day / Shoot Day 7 / May 18th, 2003
When the film was released we made ‘Foree Electric’ badges for all the directors and writers who gave us press quotes – George A. Romero, Sam Raimi, Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Jackson, Stephen King, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. So there was a great batch of name tags made that read simply George, Sam, Guillermo, Peter, Stephen, Robert & Quentin. They were all ranked as assistant manager. George wore his for the entire ‘Land Of The Dead’ shoot.
So on this very day [May 11], ten years ago, we began principal photography on ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ in London. To celebrate this we’ve decided to take you through every single day of production over the next month or two. Team Big Talk have gone through personal photos, stills, rushes and continuity photos to give you an unique day by day account of our shoot.
What a marvelous idea.
Andrew Kolb’s adorable print set for Edgar Wright’s Blood & Ice Cream / Three Flavors / Cornetto trilogy
Oh my dear my dear.
Ummm, how have I owned this DVD for so long and never noticed that it had a trivia track?!
Zomb-O-Meter engaged.
Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorite movies ever. I may have mentioned it. But I just saw this trailer on a DVD from 2004 and realized 1) I’ve never seen any trailer for it before and 2) I probably would not have watched it, based on the trailer alone, at that time in my life. :( So why did I watch it the first time? I don’t remember. Probably some dude was all “You’ve GOT to watch this it’s awesome” and I was all “fine whatever as long as I can smoke in your room.” I base this conjecture, generally, on knowing my former selves, and, specifically, on the first time I “watched” The Big Lebowski, when I spent nearly the entire running time making out with some guy in an unheated house in the middle of January, and then rented the DVD some months later because of that very hazy recollection, only to be ambushed by one of the greatest comedies of all time.
He’s got an arm off!
fan-made stop-motion animated scene from Shaun of the Dead
GPOY
This marks the first time that a Cuusoo project has reached the proper number of votes, but failed the review process.
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SIMON PEGG TALKED ABOUT IT ON CONAN AND IT GOT ENOUGH VOTES AND NOW THEY‘RE GOING TO MIGHT MAKE IT AND I’M GOING TO BUY ITTTTTTT!!!!!
The Alamo Drafthouse presents Edgar Wright Live! by Kevin Tong
I can’t even go over all the awesome things happening at the opening of the new Drafthouse in Austin this weekend because I’m too depressed I won’t be there. You’ll have to read it for yourself.
LEGO Shaun of the Dead update: you can make it real
Remember that SotD LEGO set I posted a while back? It’s been submitted to LEGO’s suggestion site, and if it gets 10k votes, they will consider producing it for sale. You have to register (ugh), but just imagine if they made it?! You could do your own zombie sound effects while shoving David out the window to be torn to shreds. I know you’ve always wanted to do that.
Custom Shaun of the Dead LEGO set
Barbara even has her flowers. <3
