DN: Which characters from the original series are you acting opposite? Caitlin, obviously…
KS: I have a scene with Caitlin, I have a scene with Joey, and I have a scene with Spike. There was a scene with Snake in an earlier draft, but it went by the wayside because the script got long. When I started doing dialogue polishes for my stuff and Mewes’ stuff, the scripts got longer; I would add volumes of dialogue. So, unfortunately, some scenes did kind of hit the bricks. But, yeah – I get to act with those cats from the original show. And then, on the new end, I have scenes with Craig (Jake Epstein), Ellie (Stacey Farber), Manny Santos (Cassie Steele), Ashley (Melissa McIntyre), Spinner (Shane [Kippel]), and J.T. [Ryan Cooley]. Now that I think about it, I guess they wrote me into a scene with almost every kid.
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DN: You just handed in your draft of GREEN HORNET…
KS: 164 pages.
DN: Really?
KS: Yeah.
DN: Epic.
KS: A little long. I mean, I wouldn’t even call it epic. It doesn’t deserve 164 pages; I just put a lot of dialogue in there. The next step will be weeding out 44 pages, getting it down to 120.
DN: Are you happy with it, though?
KS: I am. I like it quite a bit. There’s stuff in the script that I haven’t yet seen done in the current crop of comic book movies, so that made me happy. This doesn’t mean much, but I prefer this draft of GREEN HORNET to the script of the first SPIDER-MAN movie. Finished movie SPIDER-MAN? Whole different story – ’cause Sam RaimiÂ’s such an excellent director. But my script of GREEN HORNET I find more interesting than the script to that first SPIDER-MAN flick. But, of course, I’m fuckin’ biased.
DN: So the plan is still for you not to direct it?
KS: Yeah. It’s way too big for me. Investing that much time in a movie of that size, you’ve gotta really fuckin’ be like, “this is a story I, myself, must tell.” I feel like THE GREEN HORNET script is a story that somebody else must tell. I want to save my big-budget experience for something that I create from scratch. Like, it was fun to write THE GREEN HORNET, but at the end of the day, he’s not my character. I didn’t create him. So, if I’m going to do a big-budget movie, I want it to feature a character that I create.
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DN: SOUTHLAND TALES.
KS: Mm-hmm.
DN: Have you started that yet?
KS: No, but Richard [Kelly, the writer/director] just showed me some storyboards; he sent them to me by e-mail. I guess he’s got his financing and his cast almost completely locked. I mean, he had the BUFFY chick cast in the movie and THE GRUDGE opened and it did really well – so now he looks like a fuckin’ genius. He says we’ll probably start March or April.
DN: You still planning to sing and dance in it…?
KS: I’m not one of the singers and dancers. After having read that script, I just don’t understand why people keep saying it’s a musical. There is a musical number in it, definitely.
DN: But you’re not in that?
KS: No, I don’t think so, unless he recently rewrote it. He’s a really sweet guy. Real talented dude. That movie is going to be great, it’s a really great script.
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