TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider is featured in a new interview about his forthcoming movie, Strangeland: Disciple, with Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright. An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: Let's talk about the return of Captain Howdy.

Dee: "Strangeland finally, after ten years of struggle, is getting a sequel made."

Jeb: You came up with the plot fifteen years ago.

Dee: "As far as the original script goes, you are talking about fifteen years ago. You can go back to Twisted Sister's 'Street Justice' and 'Captain Howdy', which is the essence of the thing, and that was 1983. It goes way back."

Jeb: You wrote the first script. Did you write this one as well?

Dee: "I wrote the script and I will be co-producing and starring in the movie."

Jeb: It had to be great to get the initial movie off the ground but to fight for the sequel for all these years-it has to be a real high to get this going. The story sounds totally twisted too.

Dee: "It was a quest. It has been so hard fought to get this project off the ground. My wife tells me that it is the story of my life. I have had a lot of success but it is not like I just go party and somebody gives me money. It has always been a fight.

Right after we did the first one in October of 1998, we got the green light for the sequel from The Shooting Gallery. We were working on the script when the government swooped in and seized all of The Shooting Gallery's property. They put padlocks on all the doors. It turns out the CFO was cooking the books, Enron-style. That started an eight-year process in the courts fighting for my creative rights.

The government is really heavy handed with things of this nature; they just want to dissolve it and get it done with. A year and half ago, eight years down the road, I finally secured the creative rights and the prequel and sequel rights for my characters and for Strangeland. It was torturous. It was a great expense. It is not like I became a rich man off the first movie, as it was an independent, limited release film. I believe in the franchise, the characters and I believe in the artist's right to control his property and not just have it ripped out of his hand because some selfish, self-centered Wall Street guy tries to make himself rich at your expense. It became the principal of the thing at some point."

Jeb: You are known as a guy who stands up for his principals.

Dee: "I don't like being told how to do things. It is not to the point of stupidity, mind you. If you can make sense and explain things to me in a way that I can understand about a situation, then I may compromise my position. I am not a complete moron. But when you have the Federal Government, who for no apparent reason, other than because it is there, tries to sell off your property and kill your creativity, it becomes a mission. It has cost a lot of money to fight this and it is not like I have the money to spend either. Certainly, I hope it takes off but it is going to be a personal achievement to get this done. I will be proud to get the sequel done and to win another fight."

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