“And when I did I just remember going around the house, going: ‘Oh my gosh, how can I be their No. “I had certainly never heard of the Ramones,” Soles says.
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The Ramones were still relatively unknown outside the soon-to-explode world of punk music.Īrkush says in one of the DVD interviews that other bands were initially suggested by record labels (including the then-unknown Van Halen) but once he heard the Ramones he knew they had the energy and intensity that he wanted for his movie band. “The only comment I got from Roger when I went in for the fourth audition was, ‘Make your hair more blonde and you’ve got the part.'”įinding the right band, though, proved both more difficult and ultimately more fateful. “After I got a look at the script I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I could totally play this part,'” she says. Soles, who’d just appeared in “Halloween,” says she went after the role because it offered a shot at her first leading role. we found through the regular casting sessions, and to me P.J. McGree, had directed “Death Race” and acted in other Corman movies. Mary Woronov, who played the evil principal Miss Togar, had starred in “Death Race 2000.” Paul Bartel, who played high school teacher Mr. “These were all people who had worked with us before,” Corman explained of the ease with which the cast was assembled. The movie came together quickly, as Corman’s movies always did, and cheaply, though its $300,000 budget was sky-high for a Corman flick. 1 fan – about the making of that movie and the reasons why its legacy endures. Soles who starred as Riff Randell, the Ramones’ No.
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The Corman series will continue with monthly releases, which this year will include such titles as “Death Race 2000,” “Piranha,” “Forbidden World,” and “Humanoids From The Deep.”Īll of those have their fans, but since “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” is getting the biggest splash of the new releases, we mostly talked to Corman – and actress P.J. and the Vandals – also arrives this week. In addition to the 30th anniversary edition of “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School,” the punk-rock drama “Suburbia,” directed by Penelope Spheeris’ with appearances by Orange County bands T.S.O.L. On Tuesday it will help launch “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics,” a reissue program from Shout! Factory that will see 55 of his movies released in new DVD editions.
Retitled “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School,” the movie, which starred punk-rock legends the Ramones as the band, ended up one of Corman’s best-loved films.
“He said, ‘You cannot blow up a school to disco music,'” Corman says. Which Corman loved, even as Arkush then worked up the nerve to tell his boss that there was one big problem with the story. DVDs celebrate B-movie king Roger Corman – Orange County RegisterĪrkush quickly returned with a story about a disco group playing for their fans at a high school, with the school getting blown up at the climax.
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