Back in the early \u201980s, Liverpudlian director Alex Cox had just finished his debut feature, Repo Man<\/i>, a twisted punk-rock crime comedy starring Emilio Estevez. But the film had yet to become a breakaway cult hit, so the then-30-year-old optioned his next project: Harry Harrison\u2019s 1965 anti-war sci-fi novel, Bill, the Galactic Hero<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n
Cox followed up Repo Man<\/i> with two more certified punk classics: Clash-starring Western Straight to Hell <\/i>and Sex Pistols biopic Sid and Nancy<\/i>. But Bill<\/i>? Well, that took 30 years.<\/p>\n
Now a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Cox has finally brought Bill <\/i>to life. It\u2019s a student film\u2014shot, cut, acted, you name it\u2014by the school\u2019s film department and funded by a $115,000 Kickstarter campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cox hits the Clinton Street at 7:30 pm on New Year\u2019s Eve for the West Coast premiere of this bizarro tale about a reluctant astronaut battling space reptiles. He talked to WW<\/i> about Bill<\/i>, student filmmaking, and how his version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/i> would have looked. <\/span><\/p>\n WW