The other day we broke the news exclusively HERE on Bloody-Disgusting about some new additions to the cast of Darren Lynn Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera, which now includes Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Nivek Ogre, Anthony Stewart, Terrance Zdunich and Sarah Brightman. Today the film began shooting here in Toronto, Canada and Bousman has already updated his blog with an update from set. Read on for the skinny. "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 payment
Wow... that's all I can say... I have been working on this project for years now - but nothing prepared me for the awesomeness that would follow..
We shot ALEXA VEGA and ANTHONY HEAD today doing two songs... We started our first day off with one my favorites called 'INFECTED'.
Joe White my DP did an incredible job... I wanted REPO! to be ultra stylized... I always pictured it visually as a cross between DICK TRACY and DARK CITY... My man Joe delivered... and delivered HARD CORE - we are shooting on HD - with the TOP of the line HD camera the 'genesis'. I have never seen a COOLER looking image in my life... This movie will have such a crazy 'hyper' stylized look to it... It's dark, gothic, and beautiful.
It was also eye opening to watch the crew responding to the material. For the majority of them, they had never heard the music... Unlike the SAW films, where the set has to be SUPER QUIET - REPO has music BLARING all day. The actors need to lip-sync back to their prerecorded tracks - so it's like a rock concert... Since this whole experience is strange - and something none of us have done before - everything feels NEW... Nothing is same ol' same ol'.
I have been awake for 19 hours - and I guess I have to force myself to go to sleep...
I am just slowly starting to forgive him for casting Paris Hilton. I'll need some--a lot of time.
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