Could you very briefly tell us about Death Falcon Zero vs. the Zombie Slug Lords?
DB: The project started as a feature film. I’ve been a filmmaker by trade, and we actually shot the foreign portions of the film, the Czech Republic and Tanzania scenes, and we just realised that it was going to be too huge a Megillah to do on the budget we had. So Bill and I – William Bitner, who is also known as Death Falcon Zero – went back to another love that we had; graphic novels and pulp fiction. Really, our idea was to create a pulp fiction with illustrations. So that was my segue from filmmaking now into publishing. You’ve written and directed films such as Chillers – which I can imagine had a stretched budget. Did the move to illustrated prose allow you to write scenes that would have originally proven too expensive, or was there now a temptation to get carried away with dialogue? Chiller is just one of 30 movies that I’ve made. Yes, budget was certainly a factor, but writing is writing is writing, and storytelling is storytelling. And I teach my students – I really am a pro
