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'Hogzilla' to Hit the Big Screen
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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.
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:39:34 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
To: Angelas; presidio9; Idisarthur; Hegemony Cricket; A knight without armor; new cruelty; SunkenCiv; ..
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:41:03 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
(Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
To: pcottraux
They’re going to do a movie about Rosie O’Donnell?
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:43:00 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
To: tcrlaf
Well, to be honest, I thought at first this story was about Michael Moore’s next movie.
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:46:40 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
(Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
To: pcottraux
I have lived in GA almost all my life and have never heard of this.
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posted on
04/28/2007 3:10:56 PM PDT
by
Sarinnanashi
(Cthulhu tastes delicious.)
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
04/28/2007 3:25:44 PM PDT
by
Mojave
To: pcottraux
To: pcottraux
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posted on
04/28/2007 3:29:07 PM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Sarinnanashi
I also lived in GA most of my life. I’m surprised you never heard of it.
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posted on
04/28/2007 3:32:20 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
(Fred Thompson pronounces it "P. Coe-troe"...in 2008.)
To: TexasCajun
Yep, Rosie's perfect for the lead!
To: TexasCajun
Be careful, let a democrat see that and they’ll go hog wild.
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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.)
To: pcottraux
Don't expect Muslims to go see it.
-PJ
To: pcottraux
To: Mojave
Re: Post #6
Is that Hogzilla sitting next to Miss Piggy?
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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)
To: pcottraux
You going to try out for a part?
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:15:41 PM PDT
by
Sarinnanashi
(Cthulhu tastes delicious.)
To: pcottraux; Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
I hope no one hams it up.
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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/)
I never sausage an idea in all my life.
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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/)
To: pcottraux
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.
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posted on
04/29/2007 7:13:44 AM PDT
by
magellan
To: SunkenCiv
I hope no one hams it up. If they do, they will be held over a pork-barrel.
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posted on
04/29/2007 7:17:38 AM PDT
by
corlorde
(New Hampshire)
To: pcottraux
Sounds like a winner.LOL. And I can see the sequel now: Son of Hogzilla....
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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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