{"id":2184,"date":"2007-07-12T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2007-07-13T06:38:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T11:38:37","slug":"zombie-rejected-by-mebane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/zombie-rejected-by-mebane\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies rejected by Mebane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town leaders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmebane.com\/\">Mebane, NC<\/a> are up in arms over<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/news\/movie_3863___article.html\/mebane_mangus.html\"> a request by film maker Phoenix Mangus to block off the main street for a 300 zombie shoot.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phoenix Mangus, a Mebane resident and low-budget film maker, asked the city to let him close West Clay Street from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. the night of Aug. 18 and the morning of Aug. 19. He wants to shoot a massive zombie attack for his horror\/comedy movie.<\/p>\n<p>The working title of that movie was <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Redneck Zombies of Mebane,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> but he has since changed it.<\/p>\n<p>In the script, Mangus told the Times-News, contaminated dip tobacco turns users into flesh-eating zombies who attack a small town. A diverse cast of zombie killers, including a waitress and a pig farmer, do battle with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/news\/movie_3863___article.html\/mebane_mangus.html\">Quite a discussion following the news posting above.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director Mangus gives us a taste of his taste <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/user\/5038814\/exphoenix\/\">here at Metacafe<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/524295\/british_accent\/\">British Accent<\/a> (shot at a fine West Clay Street business) and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/exphoenix\">his MySpace pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town leaders of Mebane, NC are up in arms over a request by film maker Phoenix Mangus to block off the main street for a 300 zombie shoot. Phoenix Mangus, a Mebane resident and low-budget film maker, asked the city to let him close West Clay Street from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}