{"id":7106,"date":"2010-02-08T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:01:01","slug":"smith-looks-to-innovative-funding-for-red-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/08\/smith-looks-to-innovative-funding-for-red-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Looks To Innovative Funding For RED STATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To fund his first film, Clerks<\/strong>, writer\/director Kevin Smith famously sold his comic book collection. Smith may be doing something similar to get his long in gestation horror script Red State<\/strong> in front of cameras. The director recently divulged his intentions in a post on his Twitter feed –<\/p>\n

Via @marvelfanx \u201cSelling comics 2 fund film. Painful or liberating\u201d Liberating. This Aug, I\u2019m selling all old Askew props to fund RED STATE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The director elaborated on the idea in an interview with CINSSU<\/a>–<\/p>\n

I think an interesting thing that may happen with it is\u2014I was on Twitter and people are asking about Red State, and then a dude tweeted \u2018hey man, what if we pay for it?\u2019 And all of a sudden, a bunch of people were like \u2018Seriously, why not?\u2019… We\u2019re kind of creating this website. We\u2019re seeing if it works to set up and collect donations. It becomes a weird tax nightmare, though\u2026It sounded like such an easy thing online\u2026but now there\u2019s lots of checks and balances to make sure we can do it, but if that\u2019s the case, I would be into it, and I\u2019ll match it. Whatever you raise on line, like fuck it, you put it up, I\u2019ll put it up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Red State<\/strong> is a horror script that Smith has been talking about for the past couple of years.\u00a0 A definite change of pace for the director, he has stated that the script’s relentlessly bleak nature is the main reason he has not been able to get a studio interested in making the film.<\/p>\n

But before he can get started on Red State<\/strong>, Smith first wants to make Hit Somebody<\/strong>, a hockey film he scripted, inspired by the Warren Zevon song co-written by Mitch Ablom. He is currently pitching the film to studios.<\/p>\n

Via Newsaskew<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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