{"id":7622,"date":"2010-03-23T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2010-03-23T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T04:49:15","slug":"kevin-smith-shooting-red-state-before-hit-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/kevin-smith-shooting-red-state-before-hit-somebody\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith Shooting RED STATE Before HIT SOMEBODY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kevin Smith has long been talking about his planned Red State project, a horror film which he has described as “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight<\/strong> look like Strawberry Shortcake.” Unfortunately, he has had a hard time funding the project, but it now looks as if he has the cash to go ahead with production. The director announced yesterday via his Twitter<\/a> feed<\/a> that he will begin production later this summer on the film-<\/p>\n

I talk about lots of stuff I wanna do that either happens years later or never happens at all. Happy to report RED STATE is not the latter… First draft was dated 9\/5\/07. Looks like we start shooting this July. Took nearly three years, but we’re finally gonna roll on RED.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Smith has previously stated that the villain of the piece was inspired by the Westboro Baptist Church leader and hate-monger Fred Phelps.<\/p>\n

Following the wrap of Red State<\/strong>, Smith will go into production on his hockey movie Hit Somebody<\/strong>, with star Sean William Scott.<\/p>\n

Although it fared poorly with critics and did only moderate business at the box office, Smith said via Twitter<\/a> his work on the recently released Cop Out<\/strong>, the first film he has directed that wasn’t from one of his own scripts, was helpful in getting Red State<\/strong> going forward. However, he does state<\/a> that the film will be done interdependently. The film will not be so much a slasher or “torture porn” movie but “tonally closer to Race With The Devil<\/strong> or Deliverance<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Also, Smith warned<\/a> people not to expect Jay and Silent Bob – the two bumbling dope peddlers who have appeared in a number of Smith’s films played by himself and Jason Mewes – to show up in Red State<\/strong>. That would “Be like Kermit & Fozzie cameo-ing in Ordinary People<\/strong>: just waaaaay out of place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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