Marcel Winatschek

Kill the Head

Bill Murray does this thing where he just exists in the world and it works. Selena Gomez was making a zombie film with him then, which made sense. I’d thought of her as basically the new Scarlett Johansson anyway.

Jim Jarmusch was directing. The movie’s called Kill the Head, and besides Gomez and Murray there were Chloë Sevigny, Adam Driver, and Austin Butler. In an interview from March, Murray said the script was hilarious. It was in early production.

Jarmusch had made Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, Only Lovers Left Alive. Films that take their time, that know what they are. A zombie film from him probably wouldn’t look like anything else. I wanted to see Selena as a blood-soaked corpse. I wanted that image.