Zed: The Pursuit of Klavios was shot in the
summer of 1984, the story followed Zed on his quest to find the man who
killed his father. Zed reluctantly teams up with Gunner to
defeat the evil Klavios. Special effects included miniature spaceships,
a worm-beast, explosions, full head
masks and robots pulled on wires. (Click on the ZED poster to zoom in)
Zed played on the local cable public access for months,
eventually leading Chris to write a sequel.
Zed: The Nomad of Limbo, was bigger and longer
than the first Zed, and took longer to shoot too. Again we had the usual
effects, a dinosaur-beast, a plant-beast, robots and a whole bunch of
explosions. Zed II was shot the
summer of '85 and took nearly a year to edit. Chris had a job as a
video editor and he used most of the editing equipment to finish Zed II.
As with the first Zed, this outing also ran for months on the public
access channel with a collection of bloopers and out-takes from both
films.
It's hard to think that the ZED SAGA is
nearly 20 years
old. I often toy with the idea of doing another one someday, which I'm
sure makes Tim quake in his boots... (Don't tell anybody but, I've got a
drawer full of notes for future exploits). ZED will return, just
how or when is anyone's guess. I'm thinking of completely re-editing the
two films down to one feature and re-packaging it for the 20th anniversary
in 2004.
Now you know all about ZED,
CM
This
is all that is left of a ZED I prop. It's an
action-figure sized version of Tim as Zed used for a special
effects long shot of our hero walking away from his space ship.
As you can see it matches Tim in every detail. (Except last
time I checked Tim was in one piece.) I built most of
the props from old toys and junk from the garage, I couldn't
have done any of it without the miracle of HOT-GLUE... "Hey
what do you think I can get for one slightly broken ZED action
figure on ebay?"
