Reigning high sheriff - has cemented himself as the single most powerful man the world over, but even though he's raked in billions shilling replacement body parts, cancer's still a bitch fifty years from now. Deadbeats don't just get a nasty letter in the mail when they miss a payment, though Geneco keeps a small army of repo men on the payroll whose job it is to get the company's guts back, and since they have a schedule to keep. Don't fret about the sticker shock of genetically engineered innards either 'cause Geneco has all sorts of easy payment plans to help you out. You'll probably want to score a hit of Zydrate - even if it's just the street grade stuff siphoned out of rotting corpses - to help with the pain, but organs.? That's what they do. Maybe you need an organ or just want an extra heart for the hell of it: that corporate monolith Geneco will hammer a new one out for you, custom fitted and all. Repo! really is an opera, and it plows through the same sorts of themes as the Wagner crowd - Warring families! Power! Love! Betrayal! Murder! - only set in a far-flung Sweeney Todd-meets- Blade Runner trainwreck of a future.
REPO THE GENETIC OPERA BROADWAY MOVIE
The fact that a movie this left of the dial exists at all is kind of unreal. That's what happens when you take chances, though, and.yeah, Repo! takes plenty of 'em. Repo! isn't watered down to try to play it safe, and there's a pretty good chance you'll hate it. You may have had a studio like Fox opening up their wallets for something as batshit crazy as Zardoz thirtysomething years ago, but the bean counters are running the show now, and Hollywood just doesn't make movies like Repo! The Genetic Opera anymore. Even though Lionsgate dumped the flick into just a tiny handful of theaters without backing it up with any promotion at all, they did shell out $8 million or so for this wildly ambitious adaptation of the stage play, and I've gotta give them credit for that. It's.yeah, pretty out there as far as ideas for a science fiction-slash-horror flick go, but Bousman had tacked enough zeroes onto Lionsgate's ledgers that the studio was still listening. With a stack of Saw flicks that had raked in hundreds upon hundred of millions of dollars under his belt, director Darren Lynn Bousman was finally in a position to get his dream project off the ground: a story set against the backdrop of a gritty dystopian future where surgical addictions and genetically engineered nips and tucks are in vogue, and repo men carve those corporate-financed organs out of the bellies of any poor schlubs who miss a payment. Don't think that I can be fixed / Tell me why oh why are genetics such a bitch?"
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