We are almost at the end of season 2 of The Walking Dead but that's not slowing AMC down. Below we have the interview with Michael Zegen who plays Randall in which he describes playing characters that people like to beat up and explains rural Georgia's greatest life-threatening phenomenon. You can read the interview below or head on over to AMCtv.com. |
Q: Were you a fan of The Walking Dead before you got the role?
A: I watched the first season like a normal viewer. I remember thinking to myself that this is such an awesome show, there's no way I'm going to be on it. But then later when I got the audition I had to do a three-page monologue. I had one night to memorize it and I stayed up 'til 5AM. I got my friends to come early in the morning and put me on tape. Two days later I was off to Georgia.
Q: How do you describe your role on the show?
A: I try to tell my friends as little about the show as possible because most of them watch and I don't want to ruin it for them. My mother is always trying to get information out of me, but I don't want to spoil it. I tell my friends that I'm a prisoner and I leave it at that.
Q: On Rescue Me you played someone with a physical disability, and on The Walking Dead you have a serious injury as well. What's up with that?
A: I don't go out and choose these parts per se, just for some reason every time I get written into a show someone wants to do me harm!
Q: What was it like to interact with the walkers in person?
A: The makeup that Greg [Nicotero] and those guys do is unbelievable. There are guys walking around with their jaw hanging off their faces. It's just as scary in real life is it is on camera or on TV.
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| Q: And your character kills one of them!
A: You can't be on that show and not get to kill any zombies. Come on! When that script came out, I hadn't read it but I was asking around, "Does Randall kill any zombies?" And someone told me he did so I was very excited. Especially when I read it and it said I get a stab wound to the head.
Q: Speaking of stab wounds, tell me a little bit about the scene where you impale your leg on the fence.
A: That that scene took eight to ten hours and I was strapped to this fence for all of that time and it was cold and rainy. It was pretty incredible because once they called, "Action" it was almost real. I was screaming, Rick was firing guns, Glenn's on the other side firing a gun as the zombies are coming in -- it was really intense.
Q: You live in New York City normally. How does rural Georgia compare?
A: People drive golf carts everywhere. All the paths are filled with golf carts, all the shopping center parking lots are filled with golf carts. There were multiple times where I almost died -- turning around a split second before a golf cart came my way.
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AMC has posted an interview with IronE Singleton (a.k.a. T-Dog on from The Walking Dead) in which Singleton talks about some challenging moments on set this season and explains which character he'd most like to see again. You can read the interview below or head on over to AMCtv.com. | Q: How is Season 2 different from Season 1 for you?
A: The first thing that comes to mind is our camaraderie. First season, a lot of it took place in town, obviously, and the cast was a bit segregated between those in town and those at the camp. Everybody is there together this season and that right there has brought us a lot closer as a group.
Q: Is there anything you miss about the "town" group?
A: Merle... If Merle returns... that would make for some epic stuff -- some serious drama I think people would be talking about for a long time.
Q: What was the most challenging thing you had to do this season?
A: The show is so physically demanding. I would have to say the scene we did with the well walker. We had to catch the water pump from falling in the well -- we had to do that so many times. And I was on my backside and I had to kick and claw. The water pump was fake -- but it was quite demanding and really tough because we did it over and over again. By the end of the day, I was exhausted -- it was scorching hot too.
Q: I understand you do a lot of charity work in Atlanta.
A: As much as I can, though not quite as much these days because I've been staying so busy. But normally, it's my relatives. My lineage is out of poverty. A lot of my relatives -- cousins, nieces and nephews -- are in that situation. There's so much depression and poverty within my own family, so I spend a lot of my time with them.
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We met Chris Moreno at this years (2011) ZomBcon and recently reviewed his amazing graphic novel Zombie Dickheads. We jumped at the chance to interview him and this is what he had to say... Congratulations on Zombie Dick Heads, it's not easy to write, illustrate or produce a graphic novel and you managed to do it all. Where did you start?
Well, it all started when I was contacted by the editors of the Zombie Bomb anthologies from Terminal Press asking me if I wanted to contribute a short zombie tale to their book. I was trying to figure out a story that would both honor zombie lore while standing out from the pack. The title came to me first. It made me laugh because of how specific it was -- I'd never heard a zombie referred to as a dickhead before. From there it was a matter of writing the script, roughing out the pages and finishing all the way through.
How long did it take you to do?
It was about a week to do the first 8-page Dickheads short, and another 2 months to do the art for the rest of the book and put it all together. I was under a bit of a crunch because I had to fit it in between projects.
Are the zombies based on anyone you know?
Yeah, definitely. I work in a studio with other artists, and a lot of their personalities served as an inspiration. There's also a lot of me in them, sort of amplifications of my worst tendencies. Removing compassion and accountability, of course.
Do the zombies have back stories?
Yeah, I've got the people they were before they went all corpsey worked out, but it'll be a while before I even go there. The important thing is who they are right now. I mean, you meet people in your life and you only really know who they are right now, even if their entire past informs the person they've become. For some of the characters, there's a little surprise for the audience if we see who they used to be, but I think I've got to earn those moments. So for now, what you see is what you get.
Did you work with pen and ink, or digitally?
AMC has posted an interview with The Walking Deads youngest cast member Chandler Riggs. You can read the interview below or head on over to AMCtv.com. Chandler Riggs, the actor who playsCarl Grimes on AMC's The Walking Dead, explains how the state of Georgia's gun laws differ from those on set and hints at Carl's first walker encounter.Q: Earlier this season, your character spent a bunch of time injured.
A: It was my birthday on set, the day that Carl got injured.
Q: Some birthday gift! Was it a challenge to remain still like that?
A: It kind of was. After each take I'd go over and eat a bunch of sugary snacks. I'd sit there trying so hard not to break out and yell! It was actually a lot of fun sitting in a bed for those episodes.
Q: What was your favorite moment from being on set this season?
A: Definitely my birthday. They got me a cake that said "Don't Open Dead Inside," which had fingers coming out of it. We also had these zombie-head cake pops that were made from red velvet cake, so it looked like blood when you took a bite. It was pretty cool.
Q: Did you watch the whole season last year after you filmed it?
A: I did! I watched every single episode.
Here is the interview with Christopher Mihm that we promised you yesterday.... ZombiesDrule - Your role was?
Christopher Mihm - I wrote and directed the film and have a very small cameo.
How did this film come about?
This is actually the sixth film in a series of 1950s-style B-movies I have made. The idea came out of the necessity of needing to shoot in my basement because of the cold Minnesota winter. This led me to come up with an idea for a monster movie on a “moon base,” a location that could be created using simple, claustrophobic sets. Plus, I was heavily influenced by the original “The Thing from Another World” and wanted to do something similar.
What were some of the difficulties faced in shooting the movie?
The biggest difficulty came in having to build so many sets. For this particular script, we needed about a dozen sets (possibly more, we’ve never actually counted). Because the area we used in my basement for the sets isn’t that big, every time we needed a new set, we had to pull down the old one and put the new one in the same spot. This made for a lot of long, maddening nights of set building!
How did you find the location? Cast?
As I mentioned previously, the film was shot completely in a single large, unfinished room in my basement. The cast was made up almost entirely of friends, family, and other actors I had worked with on my previous films.
People seem to think it's easy to make a zombie movie, what advice can you give them?
Try your best to blaze your own path. My film isn’t a classic zombie film, really. It’s much more of a classic monster film but with many similarities to plot elements standard to many zombie films. I wanted to make sure that my film (in regards to its “zombie-ness”) stood out. If you end up making a rehash of some other well-known zombie film, you’ll get lost in the pack and perceived as a simple copy-cat.
What is your most memorable moment of the production?
Honestly, the most memorable moment had to be the last time I yelled “cut!” The film was one of the longest, most intense shoots of any movie I’ve made. At one point, it didn’t even look like it was going to be finished! So, when we finally made it to that last frame (after a marathon day of shooting, no less), I joyfully punctuated the final “cut” by putting my fist through one of the flimsy set walls! Scared half the actors to death but we cheered, hugged, and popped a few corks! It was magically awesome!
What is your favorite part of the movie?
I don’t have any favorite PARTS of the film so much as I think it has some of the best performances of any I’ve ever made. I don’t know what it was about this movie that really brought it out in the cast but, well, they really put their hearts and souls into it and I think it shows onscreen!
How do you feel about the final film? Is it how you imagined it would be?
It’s actually quite a bit better than I thought it’d be! This was such a large undertaking, especially compared to some of the bare bones films I’d done in the past, so it was overwhelming and really quite crazy to produce. What we ended up with was so amazingly great that I definitely think of it as my favorite of my films.
What is next for you? What will your next movie be?
As mentioned previously, I’m working on a “haunted house” film called “House of Ghosts.” It’s in the vein of legendary horror filmmaker William Castle’s films “13 Ghosts” and “House on Haunted Hill.” It’s a great story that I’m quite proud of and CANNOT wait to start filming!
There is a new Zombie film out there and it's called Bong of the Dead. Never heard of it? Thats OK, there is a good reason for this. Bong of the Dead is an independent movie made by Thomas Newman, in 2008 he decided he had enough, he went to the bank and emptied his savings account of his last $5000. Now most people would of gone out and spent this money on a trip, or a big TV maybe even a motorbike. What did Thomas do? He invested it into his own dream, a movie, a ZOMBIE movie.
With the help from friends and family he was able to create an epic Zombie film that has already gained popularity in 87 countries across the globe. $5000 isn't much when it come to film making, but by being the writer, producer, director, director of Photography, camera op, dolly grip, editor, compositor, composer, color corrector, sound design supervisor, miniature set construction, publicist, graphic designer and more he save a few dollars.
Bong of the Dead
When meteorites from outer space cause an all out zombie epidemic the world is left desolate with only a few survivors. Tommy and Edwin are a pair of stoner buddies who happen to survive the massive outbreak. They
keep themselves occupied by growing and smoking as much pot as humanly possible! One day they discover that by using zombie brains as fertilizer, they are able to create a strange green liquid liquid which when added to their pot seeds can grow some super weed!
The problem is there are no more zombies where they live so in order for them to be able to grow more weed, they must find more zombies. Once on the road they quickly realize that perhaps their plans of simply finding and killing zombies for fertilizer is not as easy as they had anticipated. There is more blood and bud in this hilarious action comedy adventure than you have ever witnessed before.
This film gives a new meaning to the word “munchies”.
Dan Sullivan had an idea, he wanted to make a zombie movie. This happened after being inspired by the Stephen King short story Night Surf. Stephen King agreed to the making off Project Nine through the "Dollar Baby Deal". Project Nine then became one of the RIT's School of Film and Animation biggest projects consisting of nine separate shoots with nine different directors, and then was put together for the final product, Project Nine.
We received a very nice email the other day from Milan Todorovic telling us how cool he thought ZombiesDrule was and thanking us for our review of his film. We of course jumped on the chance to interview Milan and find out what he is up to at the moment. Milan Tordorovic is a Serbian film producer, director and screenplay writer, you would probably know of him from the 2009 Zombie film Zone of the Dead/ Apocalypse of the Dead.Milan finished film school for directing at the Center for Visual Communications Kvadrat in Belgade. Graduated in Film and TV Productions from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2006. Worked as the producer and the director on several short films prior to founding his own production company. Talking Wolf Productions was created in 2005, co-founded with Vukota Brajovic. As the head of this new film production company he conceived, produced and co-directed (with Milan Konjevic) the zombie feature film Zone of the Dead, starring zombie-genre legend Ken Foree (George A. Romero's Dawn of The Dead). This won him the award for best producer of the year at the "Producers' Day" ceremony held by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade.
 Today we have an interview with Eloise J. Knapp author of The Undead Situation. Eloise first launched The Undead Situation on kindle, it became a huge success which sparked the interest of the publisher Permuted Press, and will soon be available in print as well as an audio book. I have just finished reading The Undead Situation and can you it gets the ZombiesDrule stamp of approval. The Undead Situation is fresh take on the zombie apocalypse as we follow sociopath Cyrus V Sinclair, with his unique point of view we see him struggle to survive amongst not only zombies but people as well. Eloise took some time between writing the sequel and working on a degree in graphic design to talk to us about the inspiration for the book and her love of zombies.
 A while ago we posted the world's shortest interview with George Romero, and we mentioned that he got rushed away before we were done. Well that was because he had to jump up on stage to be interviewed, so we chased after him and filmed it. It's not a very long interview and the questions were similar to ours, but we thought we would post it anyway. Watch George Romero at ZomBcon HERE >>
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