Exclusive: Kevin Smith's Update on Red State
Source:Edward Douglas
September 9, 2008
As the Toronto Film Festival wound down its first weekend, filmmaker Kevin Smith showed up with his new movie
Zack and Miri Make a Porno, starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as a couple of life-long friends who decide to make a porno movie in order to pay their rent.
ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk to Smith about the movie and before the interview wrapped, we asked Smith about the progress of
Red State, his planned horror movie about a group of misfits who end up encountering fundamentalists in the heart of the country. We asked whether he might start shooting on that soon, to which he replied, "I hope so. We're still looking for some cash for it 'cause it's not a really commercial film at all. It's very bleak and very dark, and there's no one to root for in the movie, so it's a real film festival type of film, but it's not the kind of movie you can take into multiplexes and do a bunch of business with unless it becomes a water cooler type of movie where people start talking about it. So we've had trouble finding financing for it, but hopefully that'll come together soon. Script's all done. We want to make it for like $5 million in the Midwest and do it with a bunch of unknowns and see what happens. So I mean none of those things add up to people rushing to you with a check. No one's rushing to give us money for it."
Since Smith has never made a horror film, many horror fans who are also fans of Smith's will be expecting something like we haven't seen before and something truly shocking, since he's probably built up a lot of ideas of what he'd want to do in a horror movie. "It is definitely a 180 from everything else we've done including 'Zack and Miri' but at the same time, it's not like a splatter film, it's not like slasher balls-to-the-wall gore, it's more unsettling and disturbing type of horror," he explained when asked about the direction he plans on taking things in his first horror outing.
Look for our full interview with Smith over on
ComingSoon.net before the release of
Zack and Miri Make a Porno on October 31.
Comments
Posted by: joe asylo on September 9, 2008 at 16:10:53
this is new take, lets hope it got that charm that make kevin smith movie good.
Posted by: Remy on September 9, 2008 at 16:45:22
I've got faith in the big monkey from Red Bank, NJ. He certainly can't do worse than Jersey Girl.
Posted by: Joel1245 on September 9, 2008 at 17:13:07
He's making a horror movie about a group of misfits who end up encountering "fundamentalists" in the heart of the country? What kind of fundamentalists? Religious? Secular?
Anyway, sounds lame.
Posted by: Ryan on September 9, 2008 at 17:50:21
Kevin Smith is pretty cool Im rooting him on for it!!!! can't be anyworse than the garbage so called horror flicks that are out today!
Posted by: Doug on September 9, 2008 at 18:04:47
Smith's talent has always been his writing. He has shown that he can write a serious scene as well as a comedic one. So, I don't see why he shouldn't be able to translate that to horror. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
Posted by: Jesse on September 9, 2008 at 19:36:49
In response to Joel1245, it's religious fundamentalists, it's a little difficult to have fundamental secular beliefs.
Posted by: Matt Cole on September 9, 2008 at 19:37:31
I'm always game for something bizzare,
and given its smith, it would deffinately be
that.
Posted by: sp on September 9, 2008 at 20:12:55
He said that the main bad guy would be something along the lines of fred phelps
Posted by: spoon! ¡uoods on September 9, 2008 at 20:21:46
So its like; deliverance meets jesus camp? Cause that's the vibe I'm getting.
Posted by: Horror Fan on September 10, 2008 at 10:10:49
I'm a big fan of Kevin Smith's films but I don't see this movie ever getting made. He's looking for $5M (a reasonably small sum) and has yet to find it? And he consistantly talks about how non-commercial this movie is and how that is making it difficult to raise the money...I'm guessing the script might not be up to par with the rest of his material and that's why it's being passed up. I also don't think this movie is going to be something that can really be considered a horror movie, but that's just me.
Posted by: madness of mando on September 10, 2008 at 13:43:39
saw got made for less than 1 mil, i dont see why this cant be, Smith is the master of low budget, he did CLERKS for 27,28 grand, Chasing Amy for 250 grand, i'm sure he can make a low budget horror film for 5 mil. and he is a fan of the genre, not hardcore like some of us, but he is a big fan. in my eyes, smith does no wrong... come one now.. ''who's your buddy? ''
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