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Kevin Smith Talks About Not Talking About It

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)

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  • Kevin Smith is doing his damndest to win back our favor after the disasterbacle that was Cop Out. He’s lining up Red State and says he wants to cast known unknowns. “It’s a weird kind of in between neither place that I’m reaching for… You can go to ‘Law and Order’ and grab anybody from the cast and they’ve done five or six episodes and shit but you’d still recognize them.” He also said that he’s gotten some interest from big-time blockbuster stars to play the Fred Phelps-type character. “I’m talking legends and shit… huge fucking names though and each time I’m just like ‘Why?! Why are you calling me. This is suspicious.” But in that same interview, he also said of making Red State: “This time I’m just trying to just do it differently where I’m like ‘lets kind of quietly make the movie and see what happens.’ You know, let everyone know when it’s done.” Kevin’s awfully talkative when he’s being quiet. All the same, the love is returning. (Collider)

  • Skeet Ulrich Alert! The destitute man’s Johnny Depp is set to star in the new “Law & Order” spin-off, “L&O: Los Angeles.” He’ll play a … cop. (Deadline)

  • Here’s Colin Farrel, all snazzied up for his role in Horrible Bosses. Nice combover, dude. (PopWrap)

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  • The 7th Saw film now has a title: Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive. (Shock til You Drop)

  • There’s a rumor going around that MIke Judge is working on 30 new episodes of “Beavis and Butthead” for MTV. It’s a rumor. Plus, MTV doesn’t show videos anymore, so I’m not sure how it would work. Still … intriguing. (CHUD via REVIEWUniverse)

  • Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) is reportedly working on a live-action version of Hans Christain Anderson’s Little Mermaid. Well, it’s got to be better than remaking Splash. (THR)

  • Denzel Washington is in negotiations to play the lead in Safe House, from director Daniel Espinosa. He would play “a dangerous prisoner being escorted through menacing territory by a young CIA agent.” (THR)

  • A remake of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific is being developed. Of the remake, a producer noted, “Our movie will be a tougher, more realistic retelling of the same classic story of two very different people whose love for each other transcends their enormous cultural differences.” Whatever. (Variety)

  • Ridley Scott is considering directing The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir about stockbroker decadence in the ’90s. Leo DiCaprio may star in the film, which was once set up with Scorsese to direct. (Deadline)

  • Hayden Christianson (yes. That one.) is suing The USA Network, claiming that the cable channel stole his and his brother’s idea for “Royal Pains,” in which case, I’d like to sue Christianson for coming up with the idea for a shitty show. (THR)









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    Comments

    I'm over Kevin Smith's movies. Looking back I can tell why I liked them when I was 16: dick and fart jokes, but in 4-syllable words that made me feel smart. Mallrats is probably my current favorite because it's the most honest in its childishness.

    Posted by: Mr. Tusks at July 9, 2010 9:27 AM

    • South Pacific is incredible. As I'm a musical theater nerd, that makes me so happy.

    Posted by: A-schaef at July 9, 2010 9:30 AM

    Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive

    No way. I don't believe this.

    Posted by: superasente at July 9, 2010 9:34 AM

    Kevin Smith: Over-rated windbag.

    Posted by: OldSchool60 at July 9, 2010 10:37 AM

    Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement)...

    I think you meant:

    Joe Wright (Crusher of Dreams, Destroyer of my Soul) is out to drop a bomb on the town of My Hope (pop: 7, and dropping every day).

    Posted by: esme at July 9, 2010 10:51 AM

    I love Kevin Smith. I think he puts a lot of heart into his films and wants to make them as genuine as possible, but sometimes his ideas don't really translate well.

    Posted by: ZombieNurse at July 9, 2010 11:03 AM

    Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive

    Now they're just trying to one-up The Anal Destination.

    Pretty soon we're gonna have in influx of purposely-awkard named horror movies.

    Jason 3D: IT WILL KILL YOUR FACE!

    The Exor6t (ugh, I just gave 'em too good an idea)

    And my piece de resistance for the week:

    One day you'll look up at the movie listings, and all you'll see is this:
    `````````___________
    ````````/\`````````/\
    ```````/ \ _______/__\
    ``````/````/`````/````/
    `````/````/``3D`/```/
    `````----/---------/````/
    `````\``/`````\````/
    ``````\/______\__/

    So, you'll politely turn to your friend, and ask, "what the fuck is this?".

    And he'll respond, "Oh, dude, it's Cube 3D: The Cub3n1ng.".

    Posted by: D-Day at July 9, 2010 11:06 AM

    Good gawd. Farrell is just bludgeoning the hotness with a crowbar.

    Posted by: JM at July 9, 2010 11:07 AM

    My comment: Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive is giving 5nal Destination a run for its money.

    Or, what D-Day said.

    Posted by: MM at July 9, 2010 11:53 AM

    Ooh...that Little Mermaid project could be amazing if he sticks to the story. That thing was dark, horrible and depressing. I loved it so much when I was a kid. I was a weird kid. And both Wright's movies have just been gorgeous and beautifully shot, so it could be amazing. Plus I don't think he'd be the type to pretty up the story for no reason. Fingers crossed!

    Damn, D-Day. Just...damn!

    Posted by: figgy at July 9, 2010 12:13 PM

    Ok, I'll be the first to say it:

    ANOTHER FUCKING LAW & ORDER SPIN-OFF?!?!?

    Posted by: malikvlc at July 9, 2010 12:40 PM

    Men with goatees as full as Mr. Smiths should not be blowing bubbles. That is all.

    Posted by: schrome at July 9, 2010 1:41 PM

    Alright D-Day, now you are just showing off!

    Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at July 9, 2010 1:57 PM

    Also, WTFARRELL.

    Posted by: figgy at July 9, 2010 1:59 PM

    You know what...fuck Kevin Smith. Just like M. Night Shammalammadingdong, Smith stumbled onto unexpected early success to which both men have spent the rest of their career showing the world they have no fucking clue what made their early films popular or special. I mean, M. Night movies suck...but at least he doesn't go out of his way to attack critics for not cupping his balls and demanding they give him good reviews like Smith...or attempt to portray morbid obesity as some kind of noble position in life warranting social justice. Smith, the sign that you needed to loose weight wasn't when South West acted completely in accordance to their policy...it was when you shattered your own god damn toilet in your home by sitting on it. This is the same pretentious fuck that will sit at his computer and rip on people in Hollywood on his website for acting in the same manner as he does and yet for some reason he gets indie cred??? Is it case he can't see his dick anymore? That makes more sense than any of his films since Clerks.

    Posted by: Diablo at July 9, 2010 7:05 PM

    I wonder how hard it was to supress Farrell's levitating Irish hair (as my Irish sister-in-law calls it). Mr Julien has even better and thicker and more levitaty Irish hair, so it's kind of hard to imagine wrangling it.

    But I'm pretending that I don't know that Farrell's hair is currently long and would therefore be easily hidden.

    My name is Mrs. Julien and I approve Colin Farrell's hair fiasco if it helps to get him into more movies going forward.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 10, 2010 12:27 AM

    Smith just needs an editor. The last thing I saw was the one with the angels and Alanis Morrisette as God and half the time all I could think was Shut the fuck up! No one talks that much.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 10, 2010 12:28 AM