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Published on: 5/13/2001
Last Visited: 11/12/2002
After 15 years of underground buzz and bootleg madness, Heavy Metal Parking Lot co-directors John Heyn and Jeff Krulik took their show on the road.
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For the film's anniversary, the two embarked on a cross-country tour and screening, complete with never before seen footage and a trailer from the feature film project Heyn and Krulik are writing, at the moment called Heavy Metal Parking Lot: The Movie.
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Heyn talked with Fabula about Krulik's and his plans to finally cash in on their film, which has a huge cult following (Sofia Coppola called Heyn years ago to feature it on her short-lived cable TV show, "High Octane," and it's also said to have been a tour bus staple for bands like Nirvana and Red Kross).
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Jeff was an English major, but I went to film school in Chicago at Northwestern.We made Heavy Metal Parking Lot when I was 28; I was done with school by then. Since you weren't heavy metal fans when you made this movie, did you expect the concertgoers to talk to you so easily? We didn't look like punk rockers or anything, we just looked like normal guys.We were more into the genre of what was then called new wave or punk; some of them even commented that we looked dopey or dorky.We thought it might be tough coaxing answers out of people, but it wasn't too hard because people were inebriated, and when they saw the camera they were pumped up to be on TV.This was the day before camcorders were prevalent, so it was really a big deal to see a camera there, so they really thought we were from a TV station.
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We tried to explain to them that we were making a documentary for public access, but a lot of these kids didn't have a clue what public access was [Krulik and Heyn both worked at a public access station when they made HMPL] or what a documentary was.
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But there will be some documentary elements, characters will be based on me and Jeff, as some bumbling, fumbling guerilla filmmakers.We'll look at some of the [characters'] footage, which will be documentary style.But it'll be a bonafide narrative comedy.I'm almost going to say "teen" comedy, but we definitely want to appeal to a crossover audience.You know, we kind of want it be like American Graffiti for generation X. Have you written the screenplay already? We're in the midst of polishing the script, getting into the second or third draft of it.
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