Read Edgar Wright's Coverage of the SHAUN OF THE DEAD screening!!!

Hey folks, Harry here with a link over to the coverage that Edgar Wright himself wrote regarding the recent screening of SHAUN OF THE DEAD that AICN & Alamo Drafthouse put together with the fine folks at Rogue Pictures and of course... Edgar, Simon & Nick!

A few more little details regarding the coverage you'll find on the AUSTIN BLOG of the ShaunSquad.Com website! First, the idea that Greg Nicotero would fly out to Austin to merely exhibit his support for SHAUN OF THE DEAD... a movie, btw, that he has zero connection to. He didn't do any make-up for the film. None of his mates at KNB did any make-up for the film. In fact, I'm not even sure he knows the bloody geniuses that did the make-up on the film, but folks... I know there's some of you out there that think the title for this movie sounds goofy, or that it's just a joke of a movie. Well, Peter Jackson has been lending his support to the film. George Romero has been lending his support to the film. Eli Roth has been, as has Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo Del Toro. You may notice, that none of those guys have made a movie for ROGUE PICTURES or it's parent FOCUS PICTURES. This is just an incredible out-pouring of support by folks that love a great Zombie movie when they see one. I've never seen this sort of support from other filmmakers for another's work, it really is amazing.

Also, the guy you see working to cover-up a few mosquito bites on FatherGeek's face and the brutal playground marks on my nephew Kublakhan's face (he's just started Pre-K, bastards everywhere!) is none other that BATMAN DEAD END director, Sandy Collora. Ok, now what the hell was Sandy Collora doing in Austin doing make-up on geeks for? Because he missed getting tickets for the L.A. event and when I said I wished we could have zombies at the Austin event, he got together with Patrick Magee... Who? Well, Patrick's the guy that designed and created that awesome JOKER make-up in BATMAN DEAD END! Sandy and he flew out to see the movie and have a lot of fun at PEDAZO CHUNK doing off the wall make-up! They did up about 30 zombies in about 5 hours!

I tell you, the 3-5 minute standing ovation this crew got along with Rodriguez Hat-waving Slim Pickens show of support was pretty over-whelming. Anyway, head over to ShaunSquad.Com and check it all out... and when this film opens on the 24th of September remember... this is the best zombie film since the original DAWN OF THE DEAD, and hopefully, that'll hold us till what we hope will be the best zombie film of all time, LAND OF THE DEAD, which has special zombie appearances by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright... along with... a few other characters of ill-repute...