Exclusive Update For 2001 Maniac Fans
Yesterday we told you about our recent update from director Tim Sullivan regarding the production status of 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys but more news poured in last night after our conversation with horror icon Robert Englund! Englund says that shooting originally held up by the writers strike has been further postponed by the 2001 Maniacs comic book release, the film?s location and his own prior obligations, potentially holding up the shoot until May 2008!
From our Robert Englund interview:
Yesterday we spoke with Tim Sullivan and he told us that shooting for 2001 Maniacs has been delayed.
?We got postponed from last year because Tim got this great illustrator to do the comic book for 2001 Maniacs. I?m looking at it right now and it?s really great and nasty and dirty and almost pornographic. It?s a really dirty kind of X-rated comic book. The comic can sort of be a bridge between the two movies. Now they have to wait for me because I?m running off to Italy to do a film, a [horror] gothic love story next month.?
I guess with the writer?s strike you have been delayed as well?
?The strike hurts but also, it?s where we are going to shoot. We are going to shoot it out behind the San Fernando Valley. It?s sort of like high desert with the big amusement park out there. It?s really hot in the summer but it?s also really cold in the summer. I think late spring is the perfect time to shoot it since we are shooting a lot of nights. A lot of it takes place in sideshow tents sort of like Carnivale the HBO show. It?s a good time of year to shoot nights there.?
