{"id":1328,"date":"2008-11-06T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2008-11-04T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:36:33","slug":"repo-the-genetic-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Repo!  The Genetic Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xETgGym8cnE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xETgGym8cnE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After an original release date of last April, this rock opera is finally scheduled for limited release (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Las Vegas) on November 7 and will be released on DVD next January.  It&#8217;s a kind of cyberpunk-gore-goth-drama&#8230;thing.<\/p>\n<p>The plot involves a not-too-distant dystopian future where massive organ failure is rampant and a company called GeneCo provides transplants for a price.  Those who can&#8217;t keep up the payments on their new organs may have them repossessed by company-employed legal assassins.  One of these assassins, played by Anthony Stewart Head, has to keep his profession secret from his daughter whilst also targeting someone close to him.  Sounds&#8230;angsty.<\/p>\n<p>Head is probably best known on this side of the pond for playing Giles on <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/I>, but he&#8217;s actually got a great voice and a lot of stage-acting experience, including a turn as Dr. Frank N. Furter in a London revival of <I>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/I> (a bit of intrepid googling will turn up pictures of him dressed as Frank.  Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you).<\/p>\n<p>Paris Hilton also &#8220;acts&#8221; in the film, but since her role is a vapid, spoiled, rich girl I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;ll have any trouble pulling it off.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an official <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.repo-opera.com\/\">movie site<\/A>, but be prepared for all Flash-based navigation.  Boo, hiss.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, looks like fun.  Thanks to Shadaughter and her mildly unhealthy Anthony Stewart Head addiction for pointing this out to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an original release date of last April, this rock opera is finally scheduled for limited release (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Las Vegas) on November 7 and will be released on DVD next January. It&#8217;s a kind of cyberpunk-gore-goth-drama&#8230;thing. The plot involves a not-too-distant dystopian future where massive organ failure is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}