George Stroumboulopoulos to star in zombie movie, TIFF film count at two
In the battle of the CBC it boys, George Stroumboulopoulos is out-buzzing Jian Ghomeshi with his acting roles. While Ghomeshi recently made a brief appearance on the reality series The City, Strombo has a cameo in Score: A Hockey Musical, the TIFF opening-night film. The film festival is getting even more George now that George A. Romero’s next zombie flick, Survival of the Dead—in which Stroumboulopoulos plays *drum roll* a TV host—will have its North American premiere at the fest. The movie’s premise: a war-weary band of soldiers take refuge in Earth’s last paradise, only to be confronted by flesh-eating zombies. The film will have an exclusive one-week run at the Toronto Underground Theatre on Spadina Avenue before TIFF starting August 20.
George doesn’t star in Survival of the Dead. He spends about ten seconds on the screen, if that.
How were they able to land such a big star as George, and fly him all the way up here from Los Angeles to be in the movie?
This may become the biggest zombie movie ever.
George will now get all the attention he deserves – way more than the guy in the Twilight movies. Heck, that other guy’s not even a journalist!
But the CBC will tell that George is “one of the most respected journalists in the country.”
I believe they’re referring to the same country as Borat came from.
I feel sorry for George. Survival of the Dead was bloody horrible.