Bijna precies een maand geleden kon je hier op Eigenwereld.nl mijn recensie van Burying the Ex lezen. Een zomcom van de legendarische Joe Dante, die geschreven was door Alan Trezza. Deze film is nu in Amerika in een handjevol theaters te zien en verkrijgbaar via de bekende VOD diensten, Dus trekt het media circus ter promotie langs alle bekende kanalen. Nu had de website Collider een interview met Trezza en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een klein stukje lezen.

Collider: Tell me about the long path to production for Burying the Ex and how Joe came on board.

ALAN TREZZA: Burying the Ex came from a deep love of horror films, in particular the zombie genre. I was holding a zombie movie marathon at my house 7 years ago and realized that the best and most effective zombie films were the ones that used the zombies as a metaphor for something greater and deeper. I believe Romero explored race relations with Night of the Living Dead and mass consumerism with Dawn of the Dead, which takes place at a shopping mall. Danny Boyle also did it with 28 Days Later, which is really about fear of disease. I thought to myself that no one had ever used the undead as a metaphor for a relationship that just won't die - that partner you just can't seem to get out of your life. I immediately started writing, and within a month had shot a short film that played at many festivals including Screamfest and Comic-Con.

I felt that there was more story to mine within the short and adapted it into a feature length script which took much longer - about six months - because I had to essentially throw out the short version and start from scratch. When I was finally finished I realized that what I had was actually a Joe Dante film. It had elements of horror, fantasy, and comedy which no director can bring together like Joe. I sent it to him through his agent David Gersh, he read it within a week and agreed to come on board to direct it.