Vikings, vampires, VIPs and… YOU and me!

Forget MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, I’m loading up on garlic cloves, shotguns, battle axes, silver bullets and water(?) to survive The Warren Report‘s looming showdown with… Howard McCain. And, you can fight by my side by entering today’s contest. (Read on for details.)

Mr. McCain is a talented screenwriter and director, who apparently does not put country first, preferring the mayhem wreaked by… vampires battling werewolves (UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS); Vikings fending off aliens (OUTLANDER), and, as of today, soldiers desperately trying to kill the undead!  He and partner, Dirk Blackman, have just signed on to adapt ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION, the popular Red 5 comic. (McCain has also been announced as the scriptor for Brett Ratner‘s new take on CONAN… the Barbarian, that is, not the Leno surrogate.)

On February 17th, I’ll host Mr. McCain for a special screening of OUTLANDER, which he also directed, at EMP as part of our collaborative EXPOSED: Inside Film series. Beforehand, there will be a private, VIP reception for the fear-mongering filmmaker… and you plus the proverbial 1, will be eligible join me by correctly answering today’s question:  According to screenwriter Robert Schenkkan, what line of dialogue did an actor invent during the shoot of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN that made “absolutely no sense?” (Post your entries on this here blog by no later than 11am Monday, February 16th, 2009.) Just for fun, you might also like to revisit my post-EXPOSED discussion with Daniel Myrick (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT; THE OBJECTIVE).

Off to buy rosary beads,

Warren