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Meeting George Romero
Aug. 12th, 2006 01:44 amGeorge Romero looked at the drawings of Bub and Johnny Go. Just before I showed them to him, I quickly told him about my deep love of Bub and my story idea of a delusional lounge singer who was convinced that the Rat Pack was waiting for him in Vegas. Then I told him that I had an epiphany and I showed him the drawings. He just sat there, looking at them for about five seconds.
Then he burst out laughing, pounding his fist on the table.
He instantly lamented that the rights for Bub were not his to give away. Those belong to the distributor, Taurus or something like that, the company that released the crap-tastic DAY OF THE DEAD sequel that had jack to do with the original. He and his assistants made it sound like getting those rights would be nigh-impossible. Regardless, he said (and I'm gonna underline here to illuminate the point):
"This is such a wonderful idea! If the rights were mine to give away, you and I would be doing this tomorrow!"
So, um. Yeah. I don't have the rights. But I am fucking walking on AIR right now.
Next on the agenda? First, figuring out how to set up a webcomic to post the first issue online. If I can't get the rights for Bub, I'll reluctantly change his name.
But first, I gotta print out mock-ups of the first issue of THE ADVENTURES OF BUB AND JOHNNY GO and sending it to him. Maybe trying to keep in touch with the dude.
He called after me, "Hey, if you changed it to Big Daddy, we might be able to do something with that!" I laughed; Big Daddy is hardcore, no doubt. But he's no Bub!
Holy shit. George A. Romero loves BUB AND JOHNNY GO.
I... need to collapse.
Then he burst out laughing, pounding his fist on the table.
He instantly lamented that the rights for Bub were not his to give away. Those belong to the distributor, Taurus or something like that, the company that released the crap-tastic DAY OF THE DEAD sequel that had jack to do with the original. He and his assistants made it sound like getting those rights would be nigh-impossible. Regardless, he said (and I'm gonna underline here to illuminate the point):
"This is such a wonderful idea! If the rights were mine to give away, you and I would be doing this tomorrow!"
So, um. Yeah. I don't have the rights. But I am fucking walking on AIR right now.
Next on the agenda? First, figuring out how to set up a webcomic to post the first issue online. If I can't get the rights for Bub, I'll reluctantly change his name.
But first, I gotta print out mock-ups of the first issue of THE ADVENTURES OF BUB AND JOHNNY GO and sending it to him. Maybe trying to keep in touch with the dude.
He called after me, "Hey, if you changed it to Big Daddy, we might be able to do something with that!" I laughed; Big Daddy is hardcore, no doubt. But he's no Bub!
Holy shit. George A. Romero loves BUB AND JOHNNY GO.
I... need to collapse.
