From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V7 #107 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Friday, September 7 2007 Volume 07 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Garth Maxwell [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:43:59 EDT From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Garth Maxwell Creeping Flesh: the Horror Fantasy Film Book vol. 2, edited by David Kerekes, published by Critical Vision/ Headpress (UK), 2005 (also called Creeping Flesh vol. 2) is mostly about grossout horror movies (which it calls "cruel cinema") but it also has a section called Outback Fantasy, about Australian and New Zealand films. This section includes an interview with Garth Maxwell by Jerome Leavey. Before Xena, Maxwell did some low budget horror films in New Zealand. On p. 71, Maxwell says -- Legendary Adventures of Hercules came to NZ and the producers saw Jack Be Nimble and loved it, so I was asked to be the first NZ director for the series, to be brought on at the end of the first series. It was all US directors until then. They gave me an episode which they had no real hope for, but it worked out so well it rocketed Hercules through the Star Trek ratings barrier in the US! After that I did six more episodes and about twelve Xenas, which I loved, it was a much cooler show. That went on for five years and took me to LA a lot to edit. Boeotian ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V7 #107 **************************************