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Kevin Smith: "I think we've got the money for Red State"

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Kevin Smith looks us in the eye and tells us: it looks like he's got the money to make his long-mooted horror film, Red State....

Published on Oct 8, 2009

Kevin Smith is in London right now to promote his new book – Shooting The Sh*t With Kevin Smith: The Best Of The SModcast – and do a couple of Evening With sessions while he’s here.

We’ve just got out of a half hour interview with the man, that took in lots of stuff on A Couple Of Dicks, working with Bruce Willis, where he’s heading next and how the book came together. We’ll have all that for you early next week. But we couldn’t hang around to give you this titbit.

We asked him about the state of his oft-mooted horror film Red State, which the Weinsteins had passed on and, due to its dark nature, he’s had trouble getting the funding together for (a story that’s been fairly well charted over the past year or two). It's not a conventional Kevin Smith project by any measure, and it's not a commercial film. Thus, the project has stalled due to not having the funding for it in place.

However, he told us – and we’ve got this on tape:

“I got a call at 2am last night. I think we’ve got the money for Red State.”

We double checked that with him directly to make sure that’s what the man said. And he did. Whether it’s his next project or not is unclear (but unlikely, we’d wager). But Red State might, at last, actually be happening.

Check back next week for the full interview. And many thanks to Kevin Smith for sparing us the time today...

Shooting The Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best Of The SModcast is out now.

 

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Re: Kevin Smith:
Posted By cordas 1 October 8, 2009 06:48:18 PM

Red State? Never heard of it before, but as its Kevin Smith I am interested!

Re: Kevin Smith:
Posted By MarvMarble 1 October 8, 2009 09:01:57 PM

I haven't heard of it either, but I'm also interesting. The fact he says he got the call the previous night to when the interview was made makes me wonder if he was pulling a leg somewhere though... On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised. Coincidences happen quite often.

Re: Kevin Smith:
Posted By essjayar 1 October 9, 2009 12:04:48 AM

Count me as another one who didn't know about it, but it interested. I googled, and it's about a state where fundamentalism has gone mad - a red state is apparently a state that votes republican. Think god botherers going crazy - sounds cool!

Re: Kevin Smith:
Posted By frosty 1 October 9, 2009 11:29:30 AM

any you bods going to his UK Q&A tour this weekend...? i'm going to London and Glasgow. can't make Dublin :(
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