Dawn Of The Dead Page #7

We didn't worry about it.

l don't think anyone on the show knew

anyone who knew anyone who had SARS.

- Everyone made a much bigger deal of it.

- lt was totally inflated.

lt was like a zombie plague.

You could inflate that in the same way.

l don't know anybody who was a zombie

- or l don't know anybody who knows...

- But they're out there.

Certainly CNN seems to think they are.

And this was

our first look

at the bookstore here, inside of it.

And Alias Telecom in the background,

that's where Ving's shooting him,

if you want some geography.

- Down With The Sickness.

- A little Down With The Sickness.

l will admit this,

there wasn't a single person besides Zack

who thought this was a good idea

and now everyone is like, ''When we

decided to put that song in the movie...''

l tell people, ''l just heard it

and instantly knew it was right.''

Zack was like, ''This should be over it.''

We were like, ''You're crazy!''

Now l couldn't imagine

the sequence without it.

There was a time

when we were nervous about not getting it

and we were like,

''Let's not release the movie!''

Exactly. ''What do you mean,

we can't have it?''

There's the Alamo chess pieces.

- l believe they're thanked in the credits.

- The Franklin Mint?

We thank the Franklin Mint.

We'll look at it later

for the Legends Of The Alamo

chess pieces.

- This is a big Mr. shot.

- Yeah, lot of zombies.

Because they could see Ving,

they get agitated when they see meat.

- That's why they're all...

- Which is true.

Most of the stuff, the biological,

physiological stuff, is accurate.

lt's accurate.

You'll try stuff out when you're in a mall.

- You'll look through a telescope with a girl.

- You'll play basketball.

- You'll watch Animal House.

- A great movie.

Or get some action.

- Lift four 45-pound plates per side.

- Yeah.

- Play some cards.

- Gamble for cigarettes.

- And this is great, this is gold.

- Yeah, it's great.

l didn't want to poke fun at the zombies

but when you do you've got to go strong.

Now, here comes gold.

We're particularly proud of this sequence.

Zack and l were figuring out levity

but also what else would you be doing

and this is exactly

what we'd be doing in this situation.

We'd be playing that celebrity lookalike,

shoot-them-in-the-head game.

That's just fun, that's all that is.

People give me a hard time -

''How can you do that?''

You're doing the zombies a favour.

lf you go to a carnival,

how can you ride the rides?

lt's the equivalent of egging a car.

That's the kind of answer

that they want to hear too.

- l'm doing it for kicks.

- l love his eyebrow right here.

Ty Burrell's awesome.

Rosie. And we looped some lines,

we didn't put them in.

He's like, ''Where's Clooney?''

- We got some Clooney.

- We had that ''Where's my redhead?'' thing.

- Yeah, we took that out.

- He had some girl down there he liked.

l'm a badminton player so l made them

put a net up in the background.

This is the scene that Scott Frank wrote

that we loved and didn't get into the movie

- but it's hilarious.

- lt's great, isn't it? l really like it.

- He's talking about a man we know.

- Who does know who he is.

But l'll tell you one thing,

he's not actually a gay man.

- Who's that?

- The actor there.

- R.D.?

- R.D.'s not.

- l thought he threw down a lot of respect.

- He did.

Look at Sarah.

This was something we added later after...

Yeah, we wanted to get Kim a little...

Kim was throwing some love here.

- Kim Poirier was great.

- She was. She's really funny.

She's flirting with him, he's all upset

and she's like, ''Try the vanilla stuff.''

She was great. And her part,

she didn't have that much to do

but she made it so much better

and work, she was really good.

- Her fate...

- lt's sort of thankless.

Her end is kind of rough

but it's nice that you think

once she's on the truck,

''OK, these are the cats that make it.''

This is the sequel cast.

- We shot a lot of this sequence.

- The dinner party?

l felt like l was in the plantation scene

in Apocalypse Now.

They're talking about their lives forever.

Again, we shot this

right in the middle of the mall

and we had all the lights on rheostats

so we could lower or raise them

depending on the time of day

and tent the skylights

so we could make it night.

So we shot this all day, tented everything

and turned the lights down real low

and turned the candles on

and made this night,

kind of lived-in mall vibe,

which was important to the vibe

that these guys had been there for a while.

Lights out. Jake's job thing came out of...

On a location scout with Marc Abraham

he was talking about all the jobs he had.

- Yeah, we were like...

- He was like, ''l had, like, 0 jobs.''

Zack and l were like, ''l've been doing this

since l got out of school.''

- l like that. 0 jobs.

- 0 jobs.

- We said, ''That should be in the movie.''

- He named eight of them.

That's good.

This whole sequence is great.

lnna's fantastic.

lnna is so good. She's probably

the best zombie in the movie.

As far as staying power.

She's not a zombie yet.

But she's on her way.

Mekhi's clearly having

a little trouble with his mind,

that he's tied his pregnant wife down.

- But l'm into that.

- He's gone a little nuts.

There was a big blackout

the summer we were shooting.

ln this sequence we had a blackout

while we were shooting it.

We had generators for the mall

but this scene was shot during a blackout

and Jake couldn't get ahold of his girlfriend

and he was a little bit upset.

- lt worked, though.

- He's tense but he really was.

l had a hard time getting

ahold of Debbie too.

She was in New York

and they had a blackout too.

My wife, daughter

and mother-in-law were all in Toronto.

- During the blackout?

- Yeah.

There is no group of people

l would rather be with less

than my wife and mother-in-law

in a blackout.

- That's great.

- They weren't prepared.

- They didn't have their survival kits?

- No.

- Not that you could have one in Canada.

- No survival instincts either.

They ordered room service in the hotel

and ate under the emergency lights.

- That's awesome.

- That's cool.

This was fun.

''You ready to roll?'' l love that.

''Now it is.'' Now it's dark.

Like Dennis Hopper.

Yep. lt's good.

- PT Cruiser.

- The power's out yet some lights are on.

Those emergency lights

are battery powered. lt's a movie.

- No, l know.

- For God's sake.

Why you wanna bust my chops now?

- We gotta go back in.

- Matt said to me as we shot it,

''You need this. You can always take it down

but you can't bring it up.''

He was right.

The way the movie's coloured -

did you read that review? lt's awesome.

That was all some Zack Snyder action.

- Colour timing, EFlLM.

- Mike over there did a great job.

There's a hand moving,

l think that was the AD.

lt was Sara over there

with her hand behind the thing.

- She did the hand?

- l think. l gotta ask Clay.

All the ADs and PAs were awesome.

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