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Mar 2, 2024 · Universal Pictures. Inverse Recommends. Dreaming up a convincing sci-fi premise is hard. Coming up with a decent sci-fi premise that also works as a hilarious piece of political satire is even...
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May 14, 2024 · The qualities Ebert and McPheeters so appreciate in Repo Man are due in no small measure to the iconoclastic edge Cox infused into the story through the inspiration of a script for a short film titled, “Leather Rubbernecks,” written by a punk friend, Dick Rude—also cast in the role of Duke, the film’s lead hooligan and frenemy of Otto ...
That film's producer, former Monkee and audio-visual pioneer Michael Nesmith, recommended Sandoval to British director Alex Cox, who was helming his next production, "Repo Man" (1982), in...
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Apr 6, 2024 · The best running gag isn’t about aliens, it’s about the guys this movie is built around — repo men facing off with the rival Rodriguez Brothers (Del Zamora and Eddie Velez). If Zander Schloss’ s nerdy turn as a fellow grocery store stocker looks and sounds like the template for “Napoleon Dynamite,” Zamora and Velez prefigure “The ...
May 20, 2015 · Shot on a budget of just $200,000 dollars, the film re-used several of Repo Man’s original actors including Zander Schloss and Miguel Sandoval, but featured entirely new characters. To save money the entire film was shot against a green screen with backgrounds and miniature models superimposed in post-production.
A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious—and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu ...
Jul 22, 2023 · That film's producer, former Monkee and audio-visual pioneer Michael Nesmith, recommended Sandoval to director Alex Cox, for his next production, "Repo Man". Sandoval would appear in and collaborate with Cox on five subsequent projects, including "Sid and Nancy", "Straight to Hell" and "Walker".
