Marcus Mattsson

It’s been a week with ups and down, I’ve been having a course in adaptation, we all thought it was going to be about how to adapt a novel, but we were all wrong. Our teacher, Marcell, has a rather different definition of the word, in his opinion adaptation is also just getting your thoughts down on paper, so everything is an adaptation in his mind. I didn’t really learn anything, we mostly sat around discussing stuff, and he never really concluded anything or gave us the right answer, so not really the best week ever.

Yesterday I was en extra in a big student-made zombie movie. It was the climatic scene of the movie, a lot of killing and maiming, and it was cold as hell. Also, to make it more realistic, we got C-Vitamin tablets (that dissolve in water), and when you put those suckers into your mouth everything explodes in a nice cascade of saliva: gross. It was a lot of fun though, can’t wait for the final result.

Almost all zombies, unfortunately I was taking a piss at the time.

In 1,5 hours I’ll be on my way to the Rotterdam Film Festival, we’ll be down there from Tuesday to Friday so that’s going to be cool as well. Unfortunately we won’t be there when the Coen brothers come for a Q&A Session, but hey, that’s life. Also, we’ll stay at the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, a hotel famous because it’s so disgusting… This is hanging in their main hall:

More zombie pictures:

Gore! The movie will be shot in black and white to make the crappy make-up look more realistic.

Me, moments before I’m turned into a zombie.

Water + C-Vitamin pills.