The writer/star of 'Shaun of the Dead' discusses zombies with the daddy of the genre.
My favourite bit of the interview was the following.
Simon Pegg It was the greatest night. Me and Edgar flew over and met a lot of the cast of Day of the Dead. I remember just after the film Quentin Tarantino – who George hadn't met before – was going on and on, being very flattering, and George just turned around and went 'Oh, grow up.'On a similar theme I've discovered a great online game called Urban Dead which is described as A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse.
Time Out You and Edgar pop up briefly in Land of the Dead as zombies. How did that come about?
SP I think we said to [Romero's make-up supervisor] Greg, 'Can we be extras?' And, you know, the internet is terrible now for leaking things. Some interviewer said to George, 'Is it true the Shaun of the Dead guys are going to be in the film?' And George kind of went, 'Okay, I guess so.'
George A Romero Cool with me! I was flattered.
TO How did you rate them as zombies?
GR Well [laughs] one woman got too close! Simon actually got to her!
SP I'm not gonna hold back! It's Land of the Dead, I'm not going to be a pussy zombie! Her shoulder was in my mouth range and I bit it. I'm sorry. I've got to keep it real, you know.
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