{"id":895,"date":"2008-05-30T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/update-flowers-for-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:10:12","slug":"update-flowers-for-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/update-flowers-for-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Flowers for the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers03.jpg\" title=\"Flowers for the Dead undead crew\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers03.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers for the Dead undead crew\" height=\"293\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Barbarisi, the director of the short zombie film, <em>Flowers for the Dead<\/em> &#8212; which we reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/22\/night-of-the-living-dead-homage\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a> &#8212; has been in contact with an update on the film&#8217;s progress (plus a few pics):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just wanted to let you know the progress of my short film \u201cFlowers for the Dead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We shall pick up shooting additional scenes within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently dubbing audio\/foley to the Super 8 B&amp;W footage, which is on MiniDVs. Once the additional scenes are shot, will do the same with that finished footage.<\/p>\n<p>The film is looking to be around 45 minutes or so &#8230; [It] is in tribute to the DEAD films of Romero, with a little feel of Savini\u2019s 1990 NOTLD [a remake of <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>].<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Flowers for the Dead<\/em>] takes place almost all in the cemetery &#8230; and the Dead are fresh-out-of-the-grave Ghouls, and slow moving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barbarasi says that the film should be completed by July. He hopes to have a finished product sometime in the US Fall.<\/p>\n<p>He is also putting together a short \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 reel, which takes a look at the work that went on behind the production, and offers a &#8220;nice tour&#8221; of the Classic Evans City Cemetery, showing what it looks like today.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Thanks for the interest to all the Ghouls out there! Long live Mr Romero! And of course, Mr Carpenter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers01.jpg\" title=\"Flowers for the Dead pic 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers01.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers for the Dead pic 1\" height=\"282\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers02.jpg\" title=\"Flowers for the Dead pic 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/flowers02.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers for the Dead pic 2\" height=\"281\" width=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Thanks, Joe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Barbarisi, the director of the short zombie film, Flowers for the Dead &#8212; which we reported on last week &#8212; has been in contact with an update on the film&#8217;s progress (plus a few pics): Just wanted to let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/update-flowers-for-the-dead\/\">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":[4,62,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}