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Repo! The Genetic Opera

Starring Sarah Brightman as “Blind Mag”

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REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman  Produced by: Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate  Written by: Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich  Starring: Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton, Anthony Head, Bill Mosely, Ogre, Terrance Zdunich and Sarah Brightman, (cameo by Joan Jett) Info thanks to Isa

 

 

 

 

 

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"Repo!" focuses on a cruel entrepreneur who creates genetically perfect organs that everybody needs in 2056, and who is content to send in a repo man if the recipient can't make payments.

 

Cast

Paul Sorvino ... Rotti Largo

Paris Hilton ... Amber Sweet

Bill Moseley ... Luigi Largo

Anthony Head ... Nathan Wallace / Repo Man

Alexa Vega ... Shilo Wallace

Sarah Brightman ... Blind Mag

Sarah Power ... Marni Wallace

Joan Jett ... Guitar player

Dean Armstrong ... Victim

Erica Cox ... Audience Member #2

J. LaRose ... Zydrate Reporter

Tim Burd ... Night Surgeon Victim

Melissa Panton ... Support Group #1

Dani Jazzar ... Dancer

Rebecca Marshall ... Girl with Martini glass

Egidio Tari ... Man InTuxedo

Nivek Ogre ... Pavi Largo

Vanessa Cobham ... Dancer

Vanessa Petronelli ... Mourner

Nina Bergman ... Gentern

Martin Samuel ... Amber's valet

Jake Reardon ... Single Mother

Terrance Zdunich ... Grave-Robber

Cheryl Quiacos ... Support Group

Thomasina Gross ... Sultry Gentern (voice)

Stephan Dubeau ... Amber's Valet

Andrea Ciacci ... Dancer / Gentern

Alisa Burket ... Rotti's Henchgirl #2

 

 

 

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Repo! The Genetic Opera - Trailer

Posted Oct 23, 2007

In the not-so-distant future when an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, scientists gear for a massive organ harvest. A biotech giant comes up with easy organ payment plans, but all financed organs are subject to legal default, including repossession at the hands of repo men.

 

Alexa Vega films Sarah Brightman on set of Repo! The Genetic Opera

Alexa Vega gives a tour on set of REPO: The Genetic Opera.

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Repo! The Genetic Opera (Soundtrack) - 2008
Release Date: 30 September, 2008 in U.S
Tracks List:
 
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  1. At The Opera Tonight (with Sarah Brightman)

  2. Crucifixus (with Sarah Brightman)

  3. Things You See In A Graveyard

  4. Infected

  5. Legal Assassin

  6. Bravi! (with Sarah Brightman)

  7. 21st Century Cure

  8. Mark It Up

  9. Can't Get It Up If The Girl's Breathing?

  10. Zydrate Anatomy

  11. Thankless Job

  12. Chase The Morning (with Sarah Brightman)

  13. Night Surgeon

  14. Seventeen

  15. Gold

  16. We Started This Op'ra Shit

  17. Needle Through A Bug

  18. Chromaggia (Sarah Brightman)

  19. Let The Monster Rise

  20. I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much

  21. Genetic Emancipation

  22. Genetic Repo Man (with Sarah Brightman in the chorus)

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Repo! The Genetic Opera [German Edition] - Release date:  21 May, 2009

  

Bonus Features:

 

*Two audio comments, featuring with Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman

* Photos gallery

*Scene - audio comments from Paris Hilton and Darren Lynn Bousman

*Deleted scenes (with audio comments)

*Karaoke songs (4 songs)

01 Legal Assassin

02 Zydrate Anatomy

03 Chase The Morning

04 We Started This Op'ra Shit

 

*And more….

 

 

*English 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio

*English & German Subtitles

*Zone: 2/PAL

 

 

Repo! The Genetic Opera (Deluxe Edition)
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01 - A New World Organ
 02 - At The Opera Tonight (With Sarah Brightman)
03 - Crucifixus (with Sarah Brightman)
04 - Things You See In A Graveyard
05 - A Repo Man's Daughter
06 - Infected
07 - Legal Assassin
08 - Bravi! (With Sarah Brightman)
9 - 21st Century Cure
10 - Lungs And Livers
11 - Mark It Up
12 - Worthy Heirs
13 - Can't Get It Up If The Girl's Breathing
14 - Zydrate Anatomy
15 - Thankless Job
16 - Before The Escape
17 - Night Surgeon
 18 - Chase The Morning (With Sarah Brightman)
19 - Everyone's A Composer (With Sarah Brightman)

20 - Come Back
 21 - What Chance Has A 17 Year Old Girl
22 - Seventeen
23 - Happiness Is Not A Warm Scalpel
24 - Gold
25 - Depraved Heart Murder At Sanitarium Square
26 - Tonight We Are Betrayed
27 - We Started This Op'ra Sh*T
 28 - Rotti's Chapel Sermon
29 - Needle Through A Bug
30 - Chromaggia (With Sarah Brightman)
 31 - Mag's Fall
32 - Piece De Resistance
33 - Interrogation Room Challenge
 34 - Let The Monster Rise
 35 - A Ten Second Opera
 36 - I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much
 37 - Genetic Emancipation
 38 - Genetic Repo Man (with Sarah Brightman in the chorus)

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Repo Chat / Interview

 

Article below taken from:- http://www.horror.com/php/article-1790-1.html

Terrance Zdunich: Hi. I'm Terrance Zdunich. I am faux composer and co-creator of Repo and in the film I play the character of the grave robber. Grave robber robs graves to extract a futuristic drug. So he is a grave robbing drug dealing, narratorial character.

 

Sarah Brightman: Hi, I'm Sarah Brightman and I play Blind Mag. Mag was originally blind and she was given new eyes, or somebody else's eyes by GeneCo company, and in order to survive and she in many ways sold her soul to the devil and goes through life dealing with this, and in the end cannot bear it any longer, and it's an amazing part, and it's amazing working with this great cast of people. Thank you, Darren.

 

Paul Sorvino: I'm Paul Sorvino head of the Rotti Largo clan family, and I close the doors. It's an extraordinary opportunity to be with a cast of extraordinary performers and great creators. And I'm one of the directors, this is the first time that I get a chance in movies to use my operatic voice, which I had used at the Seattle Opera, The New York City Opera, The gala at the Met, recording concerts. Something that most people don't know about me is that I'm an operatic tenor. It's a great role as well. Never had so many work for so little for so long.

 

Darren Bousman [director]: Hey, watch it.

 

Sorvino: Yeah, he took out his wallet the other day and it and moths flew out! It's been a great experience and it’s an honour for me to be part of it.

 

Bill Moseley: They were skinny moths, right?

 

Paris Hilton: Hi everyone I'm Paris Hilton I play Amber Sweet. I myself am so honoured and excited to be part of a project like this that is so unique. We have such an eclectic cast of people, we’re like the Repo! Family, I’m having a really incredible time. I love Canadian people, they rock. And this character is basically I play Paul's daughter.

 

Paul: I'm Paris's father in the Paris Hilton movie.

 

Paris: I play kind of a daughter who wants attention, so she is always changing her appearance. And she's kind of messed up because her dad is a workaholic and we’re kind of a demented family. Grave robber is kind of like my lover slash…

 

Terrance: …Supplier. Candy man.

 

Hilton: It’s just a really incredible movie. People are really going to like it.

 

Darren: I am Darren Bousman the director of this merry band of misfits. I have been with this project for six years, something like that, doing the stage production, it opened as a stage show at the John Ray Theatre in 2002 in Los Angeles.  I am honoured to continue to be a part of it and it's amazing to work with this diverse group of talent to see Paris Hilton, Sarah, Brightman and Ogre in a movie together, it just makes me smile. Not counting everyone else, so it's great to be here.

 

Mark Burg [producer]: I am Mark Burg, with Oren and Imagicon we run Twisted Pictures and my job is done once everybody is up there. I get Darren here and the cast, and I have the easiest job in town.

 

Darren: That's why I call and ask him about money. Because we need more.

 

Mark: I tried.

 

Darren: Don't bother.

 

Oren Koules [producer]: Hi, I'm Oren Koules I am of Twisted Pictures and you know what, we there, there was a guy 3 1/2 years ago, that came to us, who was editing videos for Jeff at The Firm and running errands... 

 

Darren: And taking his dry cleaning.

 

Oren: True story, and he had a script called The Desperate and Gregg Hoffman, our partner who died, found the script and pitched it to me and three years later he's done three amazing Saw films for us and we bet on him and his dream. And I think it was one of the best bets we ever made. 

 

Anthony Stewart Head: I’m Anthony Stewart Head and I play basically a caring, sharing father who happens to kill people on the side. I was blackmailed by Mr. Sorvino's character into working for him and I’m part of his GeneCo empire because I repossess people's organs. In the meantime, I care and share for my daughter. I'm extremely proud to be part of this.

 

Alexa Vega: Hi, I'm Alexa Vega. I played Shilo Wallace and Shilo is just kind of this girl who has been stuck in her room her entire life because her overbearing father keeps her there. She's kind of a struggling character just because she hates her mom that she never had because her mother died when she was born, but she basically hates her because she gave her this rare blood disease. And because of that her father doesn't let go anywhere, because he's afraid of losing her. So Shilo is basically stuck in her room until she sneaks out and she kind of becomes the, I guess, Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. She kind of leads you through the film, and you go along meeting all these crazy characters such as the grave robber and the Largo family and when she finally meets Blind Mag, who is her godmother, that kind of reveals Shilo’s hidden life, the life that she didn't know that she had. It's kind of like this great ark that Shilo creates in the film. She starts as a little girl and kind of becomes a young woman. And it's perfect because I feel like I'm right there in my life. It worked.

 

Bill: I'm Bill Moseley and I play Luigi Largo, another one of the worthless sons of Paul Sorvino, Brother of Ogre and Paris, or Amber and Pavi. I'm really the horror ringer. My job is to make sure that the blood flows, and I accomplish this with some conventional tools like knives and guns, also some unconventional tools like a fountain pen and I get along well with everybody so far. I've learned to play in the sandbox, and I am very excited because I’ve played a lot of different happy psycho's in my life but this is one of the happiest, and on top of that I also get to sing and that I'm sure, will be a surprise for all of us. I'm happy to be here, and here's my brother.

 

Orgre: He sings quite well, by the way. I am Kevin Ogilvy and I play Ogre.

 

Darren: SkinnyPuppy.com.

 

Ogre: Ogre.org. and I play Pavi who is a narcissist with a misogynistic twist, I guess to it. I love women, but more for their faces than for the actual contents of them. I see them as objects, I guess, and I usually believe that they're laughing with me, however usually I'm being laughed at more than anything at my brother is on me all the time, my father yells at me, my sister, no attention. I'm really happy to be part of this, it’s a great role for me coming from music and it allows me to play under a mask, which I'm kind of used to doing and the makeup is amazing. The people at this table I'm really honoured to be with a good very, very kind to me. And it's been a great experience all around.

 

Q: You mentioned that it's violence and the whole movie is dark. How gruesome and violent and gross is this going to be?

 

Darren: It's not… this isn't a Saw, and I think that, you know Saw the violence in Saw is in your face kind of tried to disgust kind of violence. There is more violence in this movie than I think people are expecting from the little clip I showed I think you could get kind of a sense of it like for example, our brother over here, Luigi Largo, every time he is on screen, he's killing people and ripping parts of their bodies out. And my man Ogre over here wears people’s faces. He rips their faces off and wears them and Repo Man repossesses organs all throughout the movie. So that gives you some sort of clue, grave robber has piles of dead bodies and is rolling around in them. I mean, it's violent but it's a very comic violence. It's tongue-in-cheek violence. I think it's the kind of violence you're going to smile at and not regurgitate at. That being said, there are some horrific things in this movie, but it's very much I would say in the spirit of like a Sin City type thing where the violence is just over the top. What it’s going to be rated ha… yeah. It's harsh, hopefully it will not be NC17 but it's harsh, and it's sexual too. It's going to be sexy as well.

 

Q: Actually to that point is humour, a mitigating factor. When approaching the MPA versus something like Saw which is less humorous and more serious?

 

Darren: One of things that Terrance, and Darren Smith the other writer, and myself all spoke about coming in is for this movie to work, you have to know it's okay to laugh. You have people singing, you have Paul Sorvino, breaking out in operatic notes in a small little limousine, you're going to laugh. So you have to tell the audience that it's okay to laugh right at the very beginning of the movie, because otherwise it's going to be uncomfortable. We want them laughing with us not at us. So we went into this movie trying to make it, letting the audience know that it's okay to laugh with us. One of the first images we see of grave robber he's bashing down a wall with a human body, like breaking through wall with this body, you can't just help but laugh, I think it's going to help us a lot. In Saw, hopefully we don't want to laugh. It's not meant for that, however this is a much more serious film than say Rocky horror, which was all camp. When you go to Rocky horror it’s all camp. I would say that this is equal parts camp, drama, tragedy and horror.

 

Q: This question is for Kevin: you mentioned the makeup process - talk about that and also the transition that you made from singing to acting.

 

Ogre: Well, Skinny Puppy is kind of a theatrical project anyway, so it was kind of an easy fit for me in a way. I’ve studied a bit… and earlier on I was kind of pushed into a mask… my art mentor at the time was a woman who gave me a lot of confidence when I thought I was just a stumbling, bumbling musician and saw something and put me in a class and said it was basically a beginner's mask course. So it ended up being pre-production training for a group of professional mask workers that were going on tour so was kind of out of my element. And coming in to this place I found it to be a great place to hide under and emote from and within Skinny Puppy, we've always used that kind of that kind of facade in a lot of ways, to kind of create characters. So Pavi became somebody I think that was very reflective of my own insecurities, which I kind of based a lot of my work off of as well and Skinny Puppy.

 

Bill: He does a great job by the way. I was really impressed. This is like arguably your first film and man he has just been really, really good.

 

Alexa: Actually, yesterday, I looked up when you were doing. I even told you I was laughing… oh my God.

 

Darren: Oh on the stage? We're shooting a scene of Paul and Sarah, and they’re in the foreground, in the far background just in between takes, they were on this big opera stage just dancing like cabbage patch and Ogre is in there and he's wearing someone's face and he's got this face on a it was just the most surreal looking thing I've ever seen.

 

Ogre: It was pop and lock.

 

Paul: I also want say something, if I may add something about his acting, which you don't often see in any actors, and that is grace, physical grace, because he's made the part into kind of a moving marvellous ethereal character, and yet there's a lot of truth in it. So this is a very interesting thing for me to watch as a director and actor how he is making this into a truthful kind of mimetic experience. It's beautiful wait till you see it.

 

Q:  Again, this is your first film and I know you’ve had a lot of bit parts in it, there was the Iraqi movie and whatever but what took so long? Were you just waiting for a project this demented?

 

Ogre: Actually it was fear, ultimately for me. My first audition was the for The Crow and I got into a real with Alex Croyas and I think the assistant director. I was out of my element in a lot of ways. Considering when you are on stage you have a barrier between the audience and what you are doing onstage and it’s a safe place to be, so I was kind of put in a small room with a male who was reading for a female and it’s just kind of a shock to me. And I had another audition with Alexandre Aja for The Hills Have Eyes and that went really well and that kind of re-bolstered my confidence to try something and then through Joe and then meeting everybody here, and I had to do a monologue which I kind of worked on with a friend who writes films, he’s working on a film right now, so we kind of did a character analysis and I was going to the audition thinking that I’m never going to remember this, how is this going to work, but it ended up kind of floating around my head anyway and it kind of added to the whole thing. It was a really good day for me and I had to knock-out out the part, the audition itself was a really good experience.

 

Darren Smith [co-writer]: Your audition was pretty incredible because we were all sitting there and I had heard a DVD of Skinny Puppy was floating around and someone was like he’s coming in, he’s coming in. He just walks in and goes “I’ve prepared a little monologue for you.” And went into this five minute monologue and then he just says “thank you” and walks out and were like there he is, that’s Pavi. It was crazy because he did a monologue as the character. He came in as how he saw Pavi and did this monologue as Pavi talking to us and it was great.

 

Terrance: It was very cool because we had a stage set up where most of the auditions were taking place because most of the auditions involved singing. Ogre came in and just basically didn’t go to the stage but he just stood in the middle and just started doing it and so it was very cool.

 

Q: This is for Darren. Why did you decide on Paris for the role she is playing? Just because from hearing her album and stuff before it’s sort of a sweet piece a little bit, and this is very gothic. Why did you think that she could get through that?

 

Darren: It all comes down to, this is something that I’ve wanted to make for years and years and years and years and I had to have the perfect cast and so the casting process, as Charles can attest to is one of the most arduous, painful things that almost made me lose all of my hair. We met with numerous, numerous people for Amber. Great actresses, amazing actresses that I love and I still would love to work with, but none of them got it. None of them got what the movie was. And when Paris came in, it was crazy because I’ll be honest, I was a disbeliever originally when the name got thrown out. Everyone has this idea of what Paris Hilton is, and when she walked into the room, she met with Mark, Carl and myself and two seconds after she left the room Carl and I just nodded and said “That’s her,” and we continued to meet with people but we always kept going back to [the fact that] no one had beat what she did when she came in for the first time, we had an audition where she came back in just to meet everyone else, I brought everyone in a room and said “I want you guys to meet with Paris,” she came in when she left the room again everyone was like, “Damn, that's her but can she sing? Can she do this kind of music?” So I gave her a CD and I said “I want you come back” the next day, I think it was, so she came back in and she comes in the room full of people like Joe Beshur and these other guys, tattooed, pierced, complete Goth dudes.

 

Mark: There wasn't a single person in the room that wanted to cast Paris Hilton.

 

Darren: No. They were all like this [gestures with arms crossed] while she was doing it and they were all of it. Paris comes in, she comes in dressed as the part, she gets up on stage rocks it out, does it, says “thank you” and walks out of the room. They’re like, “Did that just happen? She's the girl that is the girl.” Once she came in, there was no one that was not 100% convinced she was Amber Sweet. And her music in this sounds nothing like her music on the CD and that's exciting I'm sure as composers as well, you take someone that you think you know what they sound like and then you take them and make them to Goth rock and it's amazing. Her voice in this is incredible.

 

Q: Can you talk to me about that a little bit about the notion people have of who you are and if that was part of the motivation for taking this role?

 

Paris: Well I had this event in Los Angeles and Mark Burg told me about this project and it sounded really interesting. They sent me the script and loved it, met with Darren and I really wanted this part. I knew it was going to be hard part to get because it was something so unlike me and like nothing I had ever been asked to do, so I just really put all my heart and soul into it and really rehearsed every single day and practiced with a voice coach and really learned the whole movie and that's why I got the part. I am this part and am having such an incredible time. Everyone is so nice and this movie is really, it's such a fun character to play, she’s so outrageous.

 

Q: Do you have any expectation or inclination as to how people will react? Are you excited for people to see it?

 

Paris: Yeah I love proving people wrong. I know people have a lot of preconceived notions about me and that’s not really who I am so I’m hoping this project will beat people’s expectations.

 

Q: Anthony, how do you get your head into the character whose like so loving and nurturing and so deeply sinister at the same time?

 

Anthony: Well I am loving and caring by day… I have to say you try anything… You take one scene at a time. I must admit, the first thing that we did, which was basically Shilo waking from a dream, I played it sort of more caring and nurturing then Darren had actually wanted. He made the call and he said “Now there should be something going on, that this man is disturbed. Concentrate on the equipment of getting him well” and it was a great way to go because the change doesn't happen, so how can you do one thing and still do that. Then very shortly after that I did my most dramatic scene which is “Thankless Job,” which is an extraordinary song, it was one of the first things that I heard when they were first talking about it.

 

Darren: Tell them what you do in “Thankless Job”.

 

Anthony: [Laughs] “Thankless Job,” well, I basically wheel this guy out of my fridge, a big fridge, he comes out in wheelchair and while I'm getting dressed, the guy is trying to get out and I finally push him over against this large slab-like structure and string him up and disembowel, while singing. And when I say singing, it's like this bizarre showstopper number it's like Tom Waite, it’s a great song and it's one of those that you think, why is this guy enjoying it so much? There is this manic, kind of, not enjoyment, but I think it’s the way he kind of just blanks out on what he's doing and I hope there’s a moment in the film where you see this noble, other side to it. But when you read a script, either you identify with the character or, as my teacher in L.A. used to say, you get an organ reject, one of these parts that you try to identify but you can't. This, for some strange reason, I identify with quite easily.

 

Q: As a performer you sang a lot of pop classical opera so in hearing a lot of that line, tell us about your character and also what you reflect on…

 

Sarah Brightman: I was working in Germany and I got this phone call from Darren and he said I really enjoy your work and I’ve seen you on MySpace and I just think you’re perfect for this part. I just want to tell you the story and send you the script and he went through it and I said, “This is just great, it’s perfect.”

 

Darren: [trying to mimic Sarah’s accent] It’s lovely! I love it!

 

And when I came in at one point, this was at the studio when the part was already cast, I walked in and he [Darren] said “Everybody, this is Sarah Fucking Brightman!” Okay here we go. It’s great to see the pop from composers, they’ve done music for me that goes from opera to pop to pop rock, everything and I think it’s true for all the years that I’ve worked in my career I have actually gone into these areas in my singing, so for me it’s been a feast. I mean, I’ve just had an amazing time playing this very complex character with this very complex music, also using other languages.

 

Terrance: There are several different languages in the film. There is quite a range of musical styles in this as well as well as voices. I think when you watch the movie, you’ll see how the voices really match the characters. It goes from operatic style with Paul and Sarah to the rock and roll with Anthony…

 

Paul: I rock a little. I do some hip hop.

 

Terrance: There’s a moment where Paul Sorvino grooves. 

 

Paul: Thank you sir. I can get down, I can boogie.

 

Q:  My question is actually for Sarah. Is this, correct me if I am wrong, is this your first feature film?

 

Sarah: Yes, it is. 

 

Q: Would you tell us about making that sort of transition from stage performance to screen performance, even though this you know this is kind of over the top and stuff you still have to kind of hold back on how you perform?

 

Sarah: You know what, what I’ve found in doing theatre and after takes saying “we need more of you” it’s really about telling the truth. It’s what you are told in the script. What subtext you’re given by your director and how you feel about being kind of in your character, out and finding the truth, that’s really what it’s about. From what I’ve seen, the camera really picks up whether you’re telling the truth or not, so you have to stick to that. The difference between what you’re saying or what you’re singing in this respect, and so there wasn’t really any transition for me. It was just playing the part.

 

Alexa: It’s really cool because Sarah has this connection that really surprised me. You get a lot of actors nowadays, in film when you watch it, you’re losing this connection with the actors and you feel like they are dead in their eyes and it’s weird because a lot of what Sarah has to do is involved in her eyes with these contacts and crazy things, but day one, the way she did something so subtle, she looked down and she looked so sad the way she did it. And like everything was in her eyes and I thought how perfect. I was truly, I had no idea what it was going to be like, because of coming just from the theatre and then the opera background. You really just came in and sold it right away and you have so much emotion with just your eyes alone that you don’t even need to do anything else. It’s really quite excellent.

 

Sarah: Thank you. I mean this is what is so beautiful about all these parts, is that all the comedy in it and all the gore in it and everything else, these characters are very real and they’ve got their histories and they’ve all got so much within them, they have a huge amount of depth and layers in the characters, so this has just been an amazing opportunity to do an in-depth character, so thank you Shilo.

 

Q: Bill, to horror fans, you are known as Choptop and Otis, but you also show a high versatility to horror fans. How does it feel to get shoved right up to a larger scale, like to a wider audience this time that you actually have the singing chops?

 

Bill: Actually, when I was called into audition, I was given a song to perform, and I have to admit, I was a little nervous and anyway, I went to the studio to perform and I had to follow a Pussycat Doll who was actually in there and I saw Darren and Joe and the people that were standing in the booth and there was the Pussycat Doll and she was really bumping and grinding, making the song her own it looked like something off a stage. 

 

Darren: Bill, could you bump and grind please?

 

Bill: It looked like something off of a Vegas revue and I was just thinking “Oh, Shit.” I was actually just hoping to get through the audition, to get out, to get through the audition with a shred of dignity and no tomatoes thrown at me. The good news is that I do take singing lessons and have for a long time, in anticipation of the Corn Bugs world tour, scheduled for 2080. So I prepared the song and I got up and the one thing that really saved my butt was a very forgiving microphone. For some reason I spoke into the microphone and there was something, there was rich there was echo and somehow and I was like “Wow, this is great.” So I belted it out and I got out, no tomatoes thrown and then the next day or the day after, Darren called and told me that I had kicked some ass, so I was very excited about it. Yeah. 

 

Anthony: Everybody is always keen to say “What a great project this is!” but in this particular instance, on all of this project, and I think I can speak for everybody, it’s grown over the weeks we’ve been doing this. It’s the most extraordinary project I’ve ever been involved with and it started with being brought in by someone’s love of it, Darren’s and Terrance’s and the other Darren’s, they’re commitment that brought me into it, nothing else. And it’s gradually grown into this extraordinary creature, you saw a bit of it yesterday, it’s breathtaking and the more we do it, everyday has brought fresh proprietude and new discoveries, it’s a wonder.

 

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"WEEK TWO: WRAP UP!

10 days of shooting - GONE... 1/3 of the movie shot... I am in love with my cast! IN LOVE!!!!! There is not a weak link - - Every single actor is AMAZING!!!

ALEXA VEGA is absolutely incredible as Shilo... This SPY KID is all growns up!

Anthony Steward Head has such a ROCK'N'ROLL voice I can't get his songs out of m
y head...

And lets not forget SARAH BRIGHTMAN... This woman is a legend - and is doing things in this movie that are so f*cking incredible that sometimes I forget that I am directing her - - - I get so entranced by what she is doing I ZONE out and forget to yell CUT.

And then there's Paul Sorvino, my villain. His mere presence terrifies me...

Lastly, let me introduce you all to Terrance Zdunich - the writer, and co-star playing GRAVEROBBER... I have known Terrance for a long time - and I am proud to say the second this movie comes out he will BLOW, BLOW, BLIIIZO!!! He embodies the work 'rock star'.

Next week - Bill Moseley, Ogre, and Paris take the stage! I can't wait!!!!
This movie is shaping up so much better than I EVER could have hoped for!!!

 

 

DAY 4 - thoughts from the bathroom... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2191995&blogID=309757009

 

Ok, let me explain! After yet ANOTHER amazing day on the set of REPO OPERA - I went to the bathroom where I do some of my best thinking... I walked in, (I am still on the set and using the STAGE bathroom) a set carpenter was in one of the stalls completely unaware - I, or anyone else had entered the bathroom - and to my amazement was singing a song from REPO!

Ok, first off I was excited to hear one of our crew members singing a song from REPO - but more importantly I was excited to see THIS SET CARPENTER singing a song from REPO as this particular set carpenter was a HUGE TATTOOED MAN easily in his fifties...


What made me EVEN more excited was this Huge tattooed set carpenter was singing a song that was originally sang by Sarah Brightman in REPO!!!

What a great way to end by day...

I shall use the stage bathrooms more often!
dlb

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