A quick word with: Greg Broadmore
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5:00AM
Thursday April 10, 2008
By Russell Baillie
Greg Broadmore of Weta Workshop. Photo / Supplied by Random House
Inspired by his love of 1920s and 1930s sci-fi, the conceptual designer got the unit into the raygun business. The collectable, full-scale and hefty likes of the Goliathon ("Some say its ambient radiations increase the manhood") and Manmelters ("Tired of waking up to miscreant Martian meanderings on your estate?") have been selling across the planet. But while these steampunk zappers had no movie other than the one in Broadmore's imagination to spring from, now there's a book - Doctor Grordbort's Contranpulatronic Dingus Directory. It's part catalogue of fiendish gadgetry, part illustrated adventure of the trigger-happy Lord Cockswain cutting a swathe through the wildlife of the Planet Venus. It's hilarious in a Jules Verne meets Monty Python kind of way.
You've got a book. How did that happen?
I started moving my hand around, applying my pen to the paper and these squiggly marks came out and three or so months later, presto!
And then someone ran in with the stapler?
