The story of Jamison Stone and his killing the giant boar is of course all over the internet and many, including myself, have noted the connection between his story and that of Hogzilla from a couple of years back.
Including, of course, the interesting posing of Jamison himself, well behind the giant pig, to make it look a great deal larger than it actually was.
One comment on that earlier post did make me think a little about the whole story though. You see, there is a movie in production called "The Legend of Hogzilla". Could the whole Jamison Stone idea simply be some viral marketing for this movie? It’s pretty much standard fare, something evil is out in the forest, anguished widower seeks what killed his wife, group of students is out there in the swamps studying, obviously waiting to be killed one by one….glamourous female PhD leading them who will no doubt be the love interest.
OK, so it turns out that the something evil is a giant pig, 800 lbs of sausages on the hoof, but there have been worse (if not less predictable) plots.
I mean, look at the Hogzilla movie site here. Yup, they’re looking for investors.
All they need is a few photos, a dead boar of normal size and a gullible AP reporter (not, one has to admit, the most difficult thing to obtain) and they’ve got free publicity right around the planet.
Am I being too cynical? Is this all co-incidence, or is it one of the most wonderful pieces of viral marketing yet?
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