{"id":12750,"date":"2012-10-27T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12750"},"modified":"2012-11-23T07:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:41:28","slug":"gila-stomps-into-the-afm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/27\/gila-stomps-into-the-afm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gila! Stomps into the AFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Backbrain Exclusive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the eve of its appearance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanfilmmarket.com\/about-afm\" target=\"_blank\">American Film Market<\/a> during November, <em>Gila!<\/em> &#8212; Jim Wynorski&#8217;s much anticipated remake of the hoary old monster classic <em>The Giant Gila Monster <\/em>(US-1959; dir. Ray Kellogg) &#8212; has been graced with a new poster and a special AFM trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Note the rather apocalyptic nature of the poster&#8217;s background, suggesting a wider scale of destruction for the titular beastie than I for one was expecting. Artistic licence perhaps?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gila-AFM-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12751 aligncenter\" title=\"gila-AFM-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gila-AFM-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gila-AFM-poster.jpg 648w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gila-AFM-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the trailer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube 7vvbM6ZwxQE]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keen. What do you other giant monster and B-movie fans think?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Producer Bill Dever via Avery Guerra.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?s=gila!\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier Backbrain articles<\/a> that reference Gila!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/30\/startling-new-giant-monster-remake-a-backbrain-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\">First report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Backbrain Exclusive On the eve of its appearance at the American Film Market during November, Gila! &#8212; Jim Wynorski&#8217;s much anticipated remake of the hoary old monster classic The Giant Gila Monster (US-1959; dir. Ray Kellogg) &#8212; has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/27\/gila-stomps-into-the-afm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,91,868],"tags":[1149,1148,971,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12831,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions\/12831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}