Kevin Smith's new movie Zack and Miri Make A Porno hits theaters on October 31st and, in case you hadn't heard, Head Honcho Josh Tyler and Podcast Pimp Rafe Telsch both got to see it early and they both loved it.
Before he made Zack and Miri, however, Smith announced another movie he wanted to make that sounded even more interesting. His Red State is planned as a “horror” movie about a futuristic America which has slid in to it's own form of extreme fundamentalism. In the hopefully outgoing wake of the Bush administration and with the Bible Belt trying to assert ever more control over Government decision making, it sounds like a movie with the potential to be great, but also the potential to drive away investors like Uwe Boll running at them with a pitch for Bubble Bobble: The Movie. And by all accounts that is exactly what is happening.
Shocktillyoudrop.com caught up with Kevin Smith at the Toronto Film Festival and asked him how the project was coming along. People who like to accuse Hollywood of liberalism, take note, because the answer is "not well." Elaborating a little more about the project Smith says; “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.”
Smith admits this is all impacting financing despite his modest intentions; “We want to make it for like $5 million in the Midwest and do it with a bunch of unknowns and see what happens. No one's rushing to give us money for it.”
I'd quite happily throw my twenty bucks in the ring to help get it made. Lets all hope Zack And Miri does well and encourages some investors with balls start to ante up and let Smith make this intriguing project a reality.
