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- And the Muzak is fantastic,
the choices that G Mark and his guys,
the stuff they provided.
We had temped it with Titanic,
which we were never gonna get.
We temped it with stuff
from The Stratosphere.
We had The Beatles,
which we weren't gonna get.
We were driving and l said to Wes,
Dead Man's Party came on,
l'm like, ''Why don't we have this?
What's the matter with us?''
Wes goes, ''l'm sure Danny Elfman
would love to...''
Like, that'd be cheap,
to get a song from him!
There's a good line from Barry here.
- ''F*ggot.''
- That was the trainer...
l love this moment.
lt's just like, ''What? Look at you.''
- ''What are you doing?''
- We shot all this stuff
in the Panasonic store later on
because they were still building it
and it was supposed to be
the second storey of the mall.
- We shot it on the first floor...
- So you couldn't see down the aisle.
Then we had to redress and make
the Panasonic store on the second floor.
- We spent a lot of time with that store.
- We did.
- We were in there a lot.
- lt was a lot of time.
lt went quick, though, cos the guys
were in their zone by the time we got there.
There's lnna in the background putting
her clothes on. You can barely see her.
l love this big revolution shot of the keys.
- There are a lot of keys.
- Yeah, it takes keys to do stuff in a mall.
- That's good.
- This is a good scene.
These guys were great in it.
We'd been talking about
the origin of the zombie plague
and, you know, our sort of initial...
decision not to reveal where it came from
because l felt it was obvious
that in this fallen society
you wouldn't know where
but it's been a bit of a bone of contention.
Melissa, our assistant editor,
has been fighting that front
in the chatrooms.
And she's done a great job
convincing the masses that you don't need
to know where the plague came from.
And you wouldn't.
l think people would be more pissed
with some scene where Jeff Goldblum
says, ''Here's what happened!''
- Exactly.
- You don't want that.
You're in a mall and the TV's gone,
that's real!
That's real.
This is where Mekhi's struggling with his...
This is the existential...
- debate.
- He's good.
He is good.
''Five Hail Marys and wipe your ass.''
Remember we went to your house that day,
the two of them and us?
- We just talked out the scene.
- lt was cool.
lt was fun.
- He's a little voyeuristic.
- You think it's going in that direction.
l would want it to but then, OK, fine,
let's deal with this.
That was awesome.
lf you look back at that scene
there's a big guy at the back
who's kind of lumbering, it's pretty fun!
l only had a couple of zombies that day
when we did the overhead,
there's like ten of them there.
You're supposed to imply
there's more in the background.
Some days we didn't have enough zombies,
it was like, ''What are we gonna do?''
Exactly. Clay would come to me and go,
''l've got five zombies
''and l've got on my list
'crowd of zombies rocks arks'.''
- Yeah, exactly.
- ''What am l supposed to do?''
l'm like, ''l don't know what to do.''
But Clay did an awesome job,
He puts up with ''no'' for an answer
and got it done.
Love him.
- Here's a little confrontation on the roof.
- Yeah.
Terry sells out.
- And the irony is that he's kinda right.
- CJ's right.
We shot this on top of the mall.
Look in the background at that skylight,
you can see our movie lights
hanging inside the atrium.
So it's kinda cool that
you can see the movie itself.
We also got lucky with Mr. ,
the Toronto-based effects house.
They were awesome.
Dennis and Aaron and Eric and Patrick.
Great.
Coming up, the running
and the backing over the guys.
That was the first thing that we saw
that really, for me anyway,
- l felt, ''That's the movie right there.''
- l feel that.
Everyone we showed it to said,
''What kind of movie are you guys making?''
This bit right here.
We had the stuntmen run backwards
to the position of the dummies,
that's how we could have them
running right into the...
Those are real actors running
to the last frame. Then they get hit.
- That made us very happy.
- Yeah. That's all good.
That was Clay's angle, the low angle.
l'm glad he did that.
- This got pretty severely truncated.
- But it's good, it's tighter.
lt is tighter, yeah. lt was always...
The movie went off on this buddy-movie
kind of thing...
Not so much here but in the sequence
afterwards, opening the door.
There's a shotgun blast
from the inside there.
ln the theatrical version you have
no idea why there's holes in the door.
And then, ''Shoot 'em in the head!''
This was fun cos Jayne doesn't like heights
so she was a little bit...
She didn't go too close to the edge.
- That was the kabuki!
- That's Patrick. ls that Patrick?
He was one of our zombie MVPs.
- Yeah, he was awesome.
- He was great.
- We used the same guys over and over.
- They got mad at each other.
- And here's Ermes.
- Ermes!
Ermes had been Chris Farley's
stand-in and stunt double
when l did Tommy Boy
in Toronto in 1995 or whenever it was
and we cast him as the old woman
and got a lot of laughs.
When you see it in the theatre,
people look at that...
And they're like...
After we shot the sequence
Ermes came up to me,
l'd never seen him outside of his make-up
and he was like, ''Zack, how are you?''
And l was like, ''Who the hell are you?''
''l've only been staring at you
and talking to you intimately for a week.''
And l just didn't recognise him.
We had teamsters beat him
before we figured out...
Who he was, it was too bad.
Ty Burrell!
Ty Burrell and Michael Kelly and Jake
we met on the same day in New York,
the first day of casting.
Joseph Middleton, who's fantastic,
hooked us up with them
and we knew they were the guys right away
and Ty is awesome.
And he's a great guy.
Halfway through people were trying to laugh,
he's not saying something funny.
People were...
l'm like, ''No, that's not funny.
''Why are you laughing at that?
Don't give him everything.''
He's our Paul Reiser.
This Davy Crockett line
was a reference to the Alamo.
l wanted to reference it whenever l could.
- And you did.
- l did.
- ln the chess set is the Alamo.
This is like the Alamo
and out there are the Mexican army.
There's Jayne.
She's not gonna use the truck.
- Dead-ish.
- That was a Zack Snyder.
That came out...
We were in the conference room and that...
''What about dead-ish?''
Have you heard them?
They end with, ''ls everyone there dead?''
''Dead-ish.''
That's great.
Remember where Ving did that outtake,
''Kiss my smooth-shaven black ass''?
That was great.
He just threw that at us out of nowhere.
We were like, ''OK, that's awesome.''
''Let's do one where you...
You're ruining my movie.''
That's great.
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