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Legendary 'Hogzilla' to hit big screen
Sun Apr 29, 5:41 AM ET

Hogzilla, a near-mythical monster hog that roamed south Georgia, is about to get a little bigger. An independent filmmaker is producing a horror movie about the super swine called "The Legend of Hogzilla," and has even enlisted the beast's killer on the set as an adviser.

"He's our hog expert," producer Rick Trimm said of guide Chris Griffin, who shot the huge porker in 2004 at a hunting preserve.

Photographs of the hog hanging from a backhoe were sent around the world, and the town of Alapaha 180 miles south of Atlanta quickly adopted Hogzilla as its own, even launching a parade in the pig's honor.

A National Geographic team confirmed the pig's existence in 2005 after exhuming the behemoth's remains. While the experts said the hog didn't exactly live up to the hype — local hunters said the pig was 12 feet long and weighed 1,000 pounds — they still discovered a mighty big hog. They estimated it weighed around 800 pounds and was probably about 8 feet long.

Lithium Productions says the production will need 200 locals for extras and is hosting tryouts next month.

"We don't need professional actors," Trimm said. "We need real people who are interested in the movie."

Mikey wrote:"He's our hog expert," producer Rick Trimm said of guide Chris Griffin, "

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:BS will probably catch this thread two weeks down the road when he does a search for his name to see who's still "obsessing" over him.

Mikey wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:Rack it, Dins.

Course, would be nice if you folks would put the song you are parodying prior to the actual song so some of us who haven't listened and memorized every song on the face of the Earth ('sup music forum?) can know what the hell you are parodying before it begins.

Surprised Dins is that in touch with Country, especially Reba. Is she from the U&L or something?

Atomic Punk wrote:I caught the song right away. That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia... That's the night that they hung an innocent man...

IndyFrisco wrote: Surprised Dins is that in touch with Country, especially Reba.

Dinsdale wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote: Surprised Dins is that in touch with Country, especially Reba.

I'm so freaking in touch, that I even know that it was Vicki Lawrence who originally sang the song.

Dinsdale wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote: Surprised Dins is that in touch with Country, especially Reba.

I'm so freaking in touch, that I even know that it was Vicki Lawrence who originally sang the song.

That's Spray strung up there?

Dinsdale wrote:Well the custodian was making his rounds
So Spray fired off a queef just to flag him down
Then a big-bellied janitor grabbed his mop and said "why'd you do it"
And Spray said "BODE" all the damn while
Rolling in shit with an ear-to-ear smile
Said "supper's waiting at home, I gotta Type 2-it"

Boy, 11, Bags Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'
Ala. Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'; It Could Yield 700 Pounds of Sausage
By KATE BRUMBACK
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala.


Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.

Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet long. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.

Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig.

"It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."

Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Monster Pig. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.

Through it all, there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation for doing.

"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who lives in Pickensville on the Mississippi border. He just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school.

His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast, with 5-inch tusks, decided to charge.

With the animal finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods.

It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.

Kinder's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Mike Stone said it balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark.

"It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said.

The hog's head is being mounted by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout.

"It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen."

Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.

Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in "The Legend of Hogzilla," a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia.

Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs: "They are a little less dangerous."