REPO! The Genetic Opera...

Have you guys heard about this? It’s a dark, rock musical movie brought to you by Darren Lynn Bousman (director of Saw II-IV) that combines gratuitous blood, gore, and impromptu surgery with a post apocalyptic story (in this case a worldwide epidemic of human organ failures). The movie claims a cast including Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman, and Nivek Ogre.

No, really. I fully admit that the first time I heard about it, I thought it was a prank movie. You know, something a group of college kids made up & may’ve advertised on YouTube because the hypothetical movie would be funny. Apparently, however, it’s real and is set to come out Friday, November 7th of this year.

The film (previously a play performed in both NY & LA) is described as follows between the official movie site, IMDB, and Wikipedia:

An epidemic of drastic proportions devastates the planet. Panic erupts and scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ harvest. Out of the tragedy, GeneCo, a multi-billion dollar biotech company, emerges. GeneCo provides organ transplantation for a profit. In addition to financing options, GeneCo reserves the right to implement default remedies, including repossession. For those who can't keep up with their organ payments, collection is the responsibility of "organ repo men", skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo, ordered to recover GeneCo's property by any means necessary.

At the heart of the story is Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega of Spy Kids), a 17 year-old girl with a rare blood disease who has lived locked up and protected in her house, kept from the world at large by her father, Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head). Shilo battles with her desire to leave the house and experience life while Nathan struggles with his job as a repo man and, more specifically, his next target, a woman named Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman). Born without sight but given the ability by GeneCo at the price of having to sing for the GeneCo Opera, Mag was a friend of Nathan's now-deceased wife, and is Shilo's godmother. She is marked for repossession and scheduled to deliver her final performance for the company.

Meanwhile the Largo family, consisting of GeneCo president Rotti (Paul Sorvino), his daughter Amber (Paris Hilton), and his two sons Luigi and Pavi (Bill Moseley and Ogre of Skinny Puppy, respectively), have their own plans. Rotti is dying, and the three siblings bicker and fight about who is to take the role as head of GeneCo.

The stories intertwine and merge at the GeneCo opera.

This is the most recent trailer for the film:


Official website for ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’

Wow. More later.

~E.