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'Hogzilla' to Hit the Big Screen
Yahoo! News ^ | 4-28

Posted on 04/28/2007 2:39:33 PM PDT by pcottraux

'Hogzilla' to Hit the Big Screen Saturday April 28 1:39 PM ET

Hogzilla, a near-mythical monster hog that roamed south Georgia, is about to get a little bigger.

An independent filmmaker is producing a horror movie about the super swine called "The Legend of Hogzilla," and has even enlisted the beast's killer on the set as an adviser.

"He's our hog expert," producer Rick Trimm said of guide Chris Griffin, who shot the huge porker in 2004 at a hunting preserve.

Photographs of the hog hanging from a backhoe were sent around the world, and the town of Alapaha 180 miles south of Atlanta quickly adopted Hogzilla as its own, even launching a parade in the pig's honor.

A National Geographic team confirmed the pig's existence in 2005 after exhuming the behemoth's remains. While the experts said the hog didn't exactly live up to the hype local hunters said the pig was 12 feet long and weighed 1,000 pounds they still discovered a mighty big hog. They estimated it weighed around 800 pounds and was probably about 8 feet long.

Lithium Productions says the production will need 200 locals for extras and is hosting tryouts next month.

"We don't need professional actors," Trimm said. "We need real people who are interested in the movie."


TOPICS: Local News; Science; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: freepun; hogzilla; movie
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Sounds like a winner.
1 posted on 04/28/2007 2:39:34 PM PDT by pcottraux
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2 posted on 04/28/2007 2:41:03 PM PDT by pcottraux (Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
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They’re going to do a movie about Rosie O’Donnell?


3 posted on 04/28/2007 2:43:00 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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Well, to be honest, I thought at first this story was about Michael Moore’s next movie.


4 posted on 04/28/2007 2:46:40 PM PDT by pcottraux (Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
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I have lived in GA almost all my life and have never heard of this.


5 posted on 04/28/2007 3:10:56 PM PDT by Sarinnanashi (Cthulhu tastes delicious.)
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6 posted on 04/28/2007 3:25:44 PM PDT by Mojave
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7 posted on 04/28/2007 3:26:15 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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8 posted on 04/28/2007 3:29:07 PM PDT by Mojave
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I also lived in GA most of my life. I’m surprised you never heard of it.


9 posted on 04/28/2007 3:32:20 PM PDT by pcottraux (Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
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Yep, Rosie's perfect for the lead!


10 posted on 04/28/2007 3:33:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Be careful, let a democrat see that and they’ll go hog wild.


11 posted on 04/28/2007 3:35:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: pcottraux
Don't expect Muslims to go see it.

-PJ

12 posted on 04/28/2007 3:38:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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13 posted on 04/28/2007 3:38:55 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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Is that Hogzilla sitting next to Miss Piggy?

14 posted on 04/28/2007 4:47:53 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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You going to try out for a part?


15 posted on 04/28/2007 5:15:41 PM PDT by Sarinnanashi (Cthulhu tastes delicious.)
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I hope no one hams it up.


16 posted on 04/28/2007 8:47:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Saturday, April 28, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I never sausage an idea in all my life.


17 posted on 04/28/2007 8:47:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Saturday, April 28, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Rosie leaves The View and a movie about a giant marauding hog is announced?

The production company is "Lithium Productions". I think that is Rosie's pharmacist.

And, Rosie has claimed she can hang upside down, and every picture of a Hogzilla has show it hanging upside down.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

18 posted on 04/29/2007 7:13:44 AM PDT by magellan
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I hope no one hams it up.

If they do, they will be held over a pork-barrel.

19 posted on 04/29/2007 7:17:38 AM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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Sounds like a winner.

LOL. And I can see the sequel now: Son of Hogzilla....

20 posted on 04/29/2007 7:41:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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