- Favorite Band/Music - Hard Core Rock, Favorite Band Being Zakk Wylde's "Black Label Society"
- When writing the script for his self financed zombie film titled "Deadlands" Gary wanted to keep things simple for the non experienced actors in the film. So to keep them from flubbing character names the script was written so everyone used their real name.
- Favorite Comedians include - George Carlin, Lewis Black, and Jeff Dunham. Considers Jeff Dunham's Puppet Peanut to be the funniest character in Jeff's arsenal.
- At the 2009 Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY Gary accepted the award for Best Zombie Film for his second zombie horror film, Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008). During his acceptance speech he dedicated the award to the Late Clayton Hill, who played the infamous, Sweater/Escalator Zombie in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978). This is the second time Gary has won the award from this festival. He also took home the honor for 2006's Deadlands: The Rising (2006).
- Is also a huge fan of British rockers Def Leppard and considered their 1983 hit Photograph to be one of the best Rock songs ever made.
- On February 5th 2011 became an ordained Minister of Dudeism, a religion inspired by the 1998 film, The Big Lebowski, and practiced by The Church of the Latter-Day Dude.
- Guest directing a scene in Ninjas VS. Vampires (2010) (June 2010)
- Promoting Theatrical Screening of Deadlands: The Rising (April 2007)
- Doing pre-production for a TV commercial for an independently owned Theater Complex in Hagerstown, Maryland. Filming to begin June 1st 2007. (May 2007)
- In talks to shoot music videos for music artist Eric Stone. (July 2009)
- Penning script for Vampire film titled Night Fall. (November 2006)
- Touring the horror film fest circuit to promote the upcoming release of Deadlands 2 which hits DVD in October 2009 from Anthem Pictures (July 2009)
- Writing a low budget screenplay for the Third entry into his Deadlands zombie franchise. One of two story lines will be used, either follow the entire pandemic from the media point of view, by spending the first 72 hours of the outbreak at a TV news station, or moving the film into the post apocalypse when the zombies have taken over the world. (August 2009)
- Just finished and released his 3rd film, the Baltimore, MD / HBO's The Wire inspired gangster film, All in the Game (2011/II) (December 2011)
- Was recently interviewed by an online horror blog and asked why he has been absent from the indie film scene since 2011. His response was simply... I have a bucket list of items and the film making item has been completed. I enjoy making movies but hate the headaches of fund raising to get it done, and I refuse to change a screenplay to Hollywood standards just to get a million dollars to make a movie. I think Co-Writer Lonnie Martin and I put together a great action packed and horror filled story for Deadlands 3, the only thing that kept us from getting done on a low budget was the sheer scale of the project. So since I wasn't willing to compromise the vision of the story by adding in un-needed sex scenes or plot devices that every horror film churned out by the studios contains.... I opted to finish completing my Bucket list until I could either get the funding, or find a way to reel in the scale of the screenplay to make the film work on a crowd funded budget. It is not that I didn't want to make movies.... I would love too, but everyone has to have standards and I wasn't willing to compromise mine just for a bigger budget.
- As of December 2015, Gary is re-drafting the Deadlands III screenplay to work on a much lower budget. Having explored the outbreak scenario twice in Deadlands; the Rising and Deadlands 2: trapped, he is still aiming to keep the post zombie uprising story line and plot, although to have it work on a smaller budget he hopes to raise through crowd funding in 2016. He is also penning a screenplay based on the character of Lucky from his 2011 B&W feature All in the Game aka Thug Life: All in the Game which would follow the rise of the character of Lucky. He chose to do this due to the characters popularity among the films fans, and his brutal nature of how he handles his drug business.
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