So glad Brent found out about this event. I snagged tickets as soon as I could and they worked out to be perfect seats!
Scary Bride and Groom zombies. They were hired for the event. He kept growling as I took the picture.
The press peeps kept taking test shots, so I wanted to look like a 'cool kid' and do the same. I'm pretty sure they knew I was faking with my little snap and shoot camera. It was still fun. I was nervous in holding my ground for the red carpet. Brent wasn't there yet to back me up. I'm so silly sometimes.
Oh-my-god scary clown, pointed his finger at me and told me to take a picture with him.
How could timid me say no to a fat, scary, zombie clown? I felt like scooby do, Zoinks! Let's get out of here Shaggy!
Thought I would take a picture of the poster just in case I didn't get any good shots of the cast.
Another bloody zombie. He would come up behind me and growl in my ear. Then.... stay, and linger, and hover, and growl more until he chose another victim. These people were serious.
Etc.....
Etc, etc.
My progression of Woody Harrelson's red carpet arrival.
Zoomed in, camera high, hoping, hoping..
Dagnabit
Closer, but no face. Grr.
Why oh why didn't God make me taller?
Holding breath, getting better. Telling myself, 'hold your ground, Hold Your Ground!!' as the pushy press people crowded in.
Not bad. I could deal with this. Look at that cute smile.
Money!! So super pleased with myself I almost wanted to kiss Woody for this shot, but I didn't .
Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and some dude from Alamo Drafthouse during the Q&A. Such a blast!
They handed out Hostess sno balls and twinkies after the movie. If you see the movie or read my spoiler below, you'll understand.
I've never had a sno ball. (Sorry I couldn't get the picture straight, I gave up.)
It's like a HoHo covered with marshmallow and coconut. No me gusta.
Question and Answer and potential spoiler...beware!
No particular order and just random facts about the movie:
The movie is essentially like any zombie movie in that zombies are taking over the world and we follow a few people trying to survive. So here goes: 1. There are rules that one of the characters follows for survival. I won't name them because you should see for yourself but here's a rule you won't see in this movie, but potentially the sequel.... Double knot your shoes. That way, you're shoes don't come untied when running from a zombie. Good to know! 2. Woody Harrelson's character is always in search of a twinkie. It resembles simpler times and innocent youth (how thought provoking for a zombie movie!). Unfortunately, all he can find is sno balls. In the end he get's what he's looking for, what you wouldn't know without my inside scoop, is that they had to make special twinkies for Woody. He eats all healthy and stuff so the chef on site had to make something special for him out of organic non-preserved stuff. He said it tasted "pretty good". 3. Jesse Eisenberg's favorite zombie was a Hasidic Jew. In the scene where Woody is in a booth and shoots up all these zombies at the end there is a pile of zombie bodies all over the place. The director chimed in, after Jesse named his fave, that the Jewish zombie was actually on the top of the pile of dead zombies. In editing, they decided it wasn't politically correct to have the Jewish zombie on top, so the had to digitally erase him from that scene. 4. The pot (weed, mota, marijuana) in the movie was neither confirmed or denied to be real. 5. Bill Murray wasn't cast until about 48 hours before shooting. There are some great scenes with him, I LOVE Bill Murray and most of it was improvised. 6. There was no money exchange between Hostess and the film dudes for product placement. However, Hostess did insist that they get to edit a few things as they didn't want the movie to "taint" their image. There is one scene where this zombie lady is sucking the bone marrow from her dead husband's femur. Woody says something like, "that makes me hungry". Originally the line was supposed to be something like, "That makes me hungry. It reminds me of sucking the filling out of a twinkie." Hostess didn't like that so it got C-U-T. Bummer.