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May 20, 2015 · One monologue in particular, in which he claims actor John Wayne was a cross-dressing homosexual, was based almost verbatim on a conversation Alex Cox had had in real life with a man in Malibu. One of the most impressive aspects of Repo Man is how readily it juggles around with genre.
Mar 18, 2023 · The ending of "Repo Man" sees Otto finally getting his hands on the radioactive car, despite the best efforts of other repo men, the government, and revolutionaries to stop him.
- Witney Seibold
- Cox Made A Comic Book of The Movie to Help Pitch It to Producers
- It’S Produced by The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith
- Dennis Hopper Was The First Actor Pursued For Harry Dean Stanton’s Role
- Emilio Estevez’s Agent Didn’T Want Him to Do The Film Either
- Chris Penn Was Hired to Play Kevin, Then Fired
- The Glowing Car Effect Was Achieved with Luminescent Paint
- The Filmmakers Approached Muhammad Ali For A Cameo
- The Success of The Soundtrack Album Saved The Movie
- It’S Considered One of The Best Cult Movies Ever
- The Real-Life Inventor of The Neutron Bomb Was A Fan of The Movie
In a bid to help drum up interest in Repo Man, Cox knew he needed to give people an indication of the film he was trying to make. [rtk_adunit_top] To this end, Cox made a four-page Repo Man comic book to show to potential producers and investors. Not for nothing did Cox choose this format, as his vision for Repo Man was heavily influenced by underg...
Although Repo Man is often held up as one of the great punk rock films, one of the men most directly responsible for getting it made would seem quite far removed from that scene. [rtk_adunit_top] The film’s executive producer was Michael Nesmith, best known as one-quarter of The Monkees, who agreed to work with Cox after seeing his promotional comi...
Once Michael Nesmith was on board as producer, he promised a larger budget than Cox originally envisaged – but to secure that kind of money, they needed big-name actors on board. [rtk_adunit_top] Cox says he had Harry Dean Stanton in mind for Bud right away, but as Stanton had never taken a lead role before, he initially went after a bigger name: D...
Emilio Estevez was top of the wishlist to play Otto, the young punk who inadvertently stumbles into the world of LA repo men. [rtk_adunit_top] Once again, however, agents got in the way, as Estevez’s representatives refused to pass the script on to the young actor. Estevez’s people were pushing for him to take on bigger movies, as he would the foll...
The Repo Man crew ran into a little more difficulty with the supporting role of Kevin, Otto’s co-worker in the early supermarket scenes. [rtk_adunit_top] Zander Schloss, a production assistant on the film, had auditioned for the role, and was very keen to land it. By all accounts, Schloss was upset when the filmmakers decided to instead cast Chris ...
While it may have a science fiction element, Repo Man isn’t exactly a special effects-heavy film. [rtk_adunit_top] Even so, the climax of the film – in which the irradiated Chevy Malibu takes flight – required some extra movie magic. However, the glowing car was not achieved via high-tech visual effects, but with a simple, practical approach: the u...
The final scene of Repo Man sees representatives of various faiths – notably priests and rabbis – approach the mystically empowered car, only to be denied entrance. [rtk_adunit_top] At one point, Cox hoped for this scene to feature a very notable representative of Islam: Muhammad Ali. The filmmakers were preparing to shoot the grand finale when the...
Having cost around $1.5 million to make, Repo Man took only $129,000 from its initial theatrical run in the US, leaving it something of a box office flop. [rtk_adunit_top] However, despite bombing theatrically, the film proved to do far better business on VHS – and much of the renewed interest in the film later on was down to the popularity of the ...
While it took a little while for Repo Man to find its audience, the film was widely embraced by critics right away. [rtk_adunit_top] Influential US critic Roger Ebert praised the film: “(it) comes out of left field, has no big stars, didn’t cost much, takes chances, dares to be unconventional, is funny, and works.” In the years since, Repo Man’s re...
One standout scene in Repo Man sees the somewhat troubled J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) tell Otto (Estevez) about his friend who invented the neutron bomb. [rtk_adunit_top] This horrific sounding device, as Harris memorably tells us, “destroys people but leaves buildings standing.” Some time after Repo Man was released, Alex Cox says he was contact...
May 14, 2024 · After a brief exchange Duke, oblivious of the Malibu’s value, leaves in disgust at Otto’s transformation into a repo man, exclaiming, “fuck this, let’s go do some crimes.” In the parking lot outside, they find Parnell next to the Malibu with Debbi yelling, “what the fuck are you doing with our car?”
Mar 12, 2024 · Released on March 2, 1984, Repo Man stars a young Emilio Estevez as Otto, a punk rocker from Los Angeles who loses his supermarket job and winds up repossessing cars after he’s taken under the...
- Jake Kleinman
Apr 16, 2013 · The original drafts of the Repo Man screenplay actually did end with atomic annihilation. Even with the sunnier conclusion that the film wound up with, it still fits snugly in the roster of politicized 1980s American sci-fi.
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Oct 4, 2023 · Repo Man follows the story of Otto, a disenchanted young man who becomes a repo agent and gets entangled in a world of bizarre and dangerous situations after encountering a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a trunk full of sought-after merchandise.
