I guess the fans are very excited about Kevin’s involvement on the TV show. The reaction up here has also been very good. There has been some questioning
lately trying to find out who your source was 🙂 but they just can’t keep this under wraps.

There has been plenty of plans for future re-assignments and plenty of moving around inside the “Ranch”, they have already started making room for the
offices that will handle the TV show. I am not quite sure if the bulk of the work will be done here or if they will be done over at the Presidio. Smith is
definitely the top choice and I have been told that he has been staying very busy with negotiations before he starts up with his Clerks sequel. There was
some up here that claim that he was spotted up here a few weeks ago, I didn’t see him.

The TV show will go full speed as soon as Sith is released by that time Kevin should be done with most of his work on Clerks 2. Your scooper that sent you
the info on Hamill is right, they are hoping to get Mark to come back and be like the mentor of the new Jedi Knights or something. I am trying to pin point
the time frame and if they are expected to keep the EU continuity. I personally doubt that EU storylines will be explored, they might be mentioned but from
what I understand Kevin and George want fresh new storylines. I was told about a possible twist to show, even though it’s to take place after Return of the
Jedi a few ILMers have been talking about showing some flashback sequences via Holocron- type technology.

I was also told that the public should expect an official announcement within a few months. Part of not releasing any information on the show is because
News Corp. [20th Century Fox] is hoping to be involved with the distribution of the show. There has also been some rumblings coming from the Sci-Fi Channel
hoping to land the domestic distribution but I doubt that will happen. One other thing, Sith is turning up nicely.

Talk to you next year.

Darth Scooper

Kevin Smith

by Michael Wilson

Maybe it was because one more E! story about “Bennifer” would’ve resulted in armed revolution. Maybe it was because Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had
parted ways by the time it was released. Or maybe we just weren’t ready for a Kevin Smith movie sans Jay and Silent Bob. Whatever the case, Jersey Girl
failed at the box office in March–yet Smith remains my choice for the most influential artist of 2004.

After seeing Smith’s debut movie Clerks in 1994, I knew I could be a filmmaker. It was the film that put within reach the career I had only dreamed about.
Though my own first flick would be a documentary, I couldn’t resist paying homage in it to the guy who made me believe it was possible. (Fans of Smith’s
Mallrats will know the moment when they see it.)

My generation needed a voice (the baby boomers had Dylan), and Smith was the foul mouth we had been searching for. Through his unique observations about
everything from Star Wars to blow jobs, from the nature of God to the difficulty of deep and powerful relationships–including those between father and
child–Smith has been my guide to growing up. He has synthesized what’s on the minds of Generation X and delivered it in hilarious fashion.

But in 2004, Kevin Smith influenced me for reasons that have little to do with filmmaking. Though Jersey Girl was a bomb, I connected with it in a profound
way. As the father of a young girl, and as someone who, at times over the past year, found myself placing my career above more important things, I took
from the saccharine, John Hughes-style ending of Smith’s film the bit of hope that I needed. As Affleck’s Oliver Trinke says after having a similar
realization about his disordered priorities, “I’m gonna be the best daddy in the world.”

Sometimes it takes a good movie to remind us what we really want to be.