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What's up with Kevin Smith's stalled horror film Red State?
Kevin Smith's own News Askew Web site reported on Aug. 23 that the writer/director is still waiting to secure funding for his first horror movie, Red State. Now he tells SCI FI Wire that he may have misunderstood the film's financial status.
"I had a conversation with Jon Gordon, the producer on it, a dude who was our guy for years and years at Miramax," Smith said in an exclusive phone interview on Sept. 2 while he was promoting his book Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of Smodcast. "The other day Jon was over, and he's like, 'What have you been telling people about Red State?' And I was like, 'That we don't have any money, that we can't find the money.' He's like, 'Why are you telling people that? That's not true.' I said, 'I don't see any Red State money. If I don't see it, if I've never heard of it, then how do I think that it exists?'"
It turns out that Gordon feels he's raised enough money but wants to secure casting before making any announcement. Smith wants to confirm money before he starts casting. Smith continued, "He goes, 'Well, I thought you just wanted to attach cast before we attach the budget.' I was like, 'No, before we can do that, I want to make sure there's money actually to go make the movie, before we even start thinking about bringing people on board, because then I've got to go out to them hat in hand and be like, "Hey, man, can you do this movie for f--kin' nothing?", because we're doing it for peanuts.' So it depends who you ask."
Smith has been vague about the plot of his genre script, only that its horror would come from political fundamentalism taken to the extreme. Should Smith settle the miscommunication with Gordon, Red State could be his next film.
"I keep saying we don't have the money yet," Smith said. "Jon Gordon's just like, 'We haven't even asked anybody.' So I don't know, the truth probably lies somewhere in between. Long story short, hopefully the money turns up very soon and we go. Failing that, I'm going to pursue my hockey movie next."
By spaceage whizkid at 9:27 AM ON 09/08/09
Go K.S. Love your movies. Modern satire is cool.
By dink at 3:45 PM ON 09/08/09
um.. does so help you god during court proceedings count?
By UnRiel at 4:02 PM ON 09/08/09
What's the deal with deleting the discussion threads SyFyWire? Since when is the management intolerant of political discourse inspired by the articles?
By sexualchocolate at 5:04 PM ON 09/08/09
"political fundamentalism taken to the extreme" So it MUST involve Republicans, right? Of course there's no such thing as Democrat and Liberal wack-jobs. Surprise, Kevin Smith has become something he once hated, a cog in the system, the Hollywood system.
By Rick at 5:08 PM ON 09/08/09
Yup, just another left-wing political hack piece. It'll be just as hot as any other screed against religion, which is to say, not very.
How come we never see cautionary tales about left wing policies gone wrong?
By UnRiel at 5:33 PM ON 09/08/09
I like Rick's question. An updated version of 1984 where the "State" invades every aspect of our lives and penalizes personal liberty would be a realistic horror movie based upon the possible outcome of the direction of our government.
By Mellisa at 7:21 PM ON 09/08/09
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By AngryJonny at 10:20 PM ON 09/08/09
Rick & UnRiel:
Anyone who didn't have their head blissfully shoved in the sand for the last eight years was already living a horror movie.
Trying to limit what women can do with their bodies, deciding which people are allowed to marry who they want, "liberating" sovereign nations in the Middle East, wiretaps in the name of freedom, arbitrarily claiming the Geneva Conventions don't apply to us, the terrible treatment of veterans at Walter Reed, partisan firings of US Attorneys, outing a CIA agent, Katrina?
That's "1984" enough for me.
By hermy at 12:45 AM ON 09/09/09
when you see all that "god hates fags" crap on tv why not have a guy like that be a villian in a horror movie.thats what gave kevin the idea to begin with
By Aberzombie at 6:34 AM ON 09/09/09
Ah yes, because we all know that the evil George Bush used his secret weather machine to target New Orleans with a powerful Hurricane.
AngryJohnny - take the tinfoil off your head.
By UnRiel at 7:02 AM ON 09/09/09
@AngryJonny
What about my statement implied I defend the previous administration? Most true Conservatives were critical of just about everything that was done in the name of Conservatism. We were glad to see Bush go and disappointed that our so-called party gave us McCain as our choice so stop you can stop ringing that bell.
It's just that anyone who didn't have their head blissfully shoved in another dark place would understand that we're going from bad to worse.
I have a concept for a script called Blue State, but we already have enough movies about zombies feeding off the healthy out there.
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