- Kevin’s ripping through the blog updates now, with more days online, including the start of July, and the end of the month of June. The mysterious mid-June period remains unfilled, though we assume that there’s drama to be written and revealed there in the time to come (finding the right words for that might be tougher, or, Kevin may just have a lot he wants to write).
Summarizing the news, seems that all is well with Kevin, family, and friends, as the Vancouver filming experience continues. The Affleck situation, which COULD account for some of this drama, also seems to be under control, and doing better. And by the time this trip is over, we’re guessing Kevin will be hitting the professional Texas Hold’Em circuit with all the play he’s been getting in.
In movie news, here’s a tidbit on “Fletch Won” that caught our eye:
On the way back to the hotel, I call my agent Phil to talk about the future of “Fletch Won”. We’re kind of at an impasse with the flick, inasmuch as I see the flick as more of a straight adaptation of the book, and Harvey and the producer David List seem to want to make something closer to the Chevy Chase version, with more sight gags and disguises. I told Harvey I was gonna do another draft of the script and turn it in by the end of “Catch”, but after re-reading the script, there’s nothing I want to change. I see the flick along the lines of Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight”, but aside from me, Mos, Phil Benson, and Chris Moore (who, at one point, was in line to produce it with us), everybody else wants to do a version that’s more commercial. Chris Tucker’s name has been bandied about as Fletch on more than one occasion – which is all well and good, but I don’t have much interest in making that version of “Fletch Won.” Being told I couldn’t cast Jason Lee two years ago was hard enough, but now we’re at a point at which Harvey and I aren’t even on the same page in terms of tone or story-flow. So I tell Phil that I gotta go with the gut on this one and stick to my script, as-is. If they want to go another way, without me, I’ll understand.
Our opinion? We hope Kevin gets to make the flick he wants, with the cast he wants. Looking back at all the great casting choices Kevin has made, all the way to the start of his career, we’re hopeful this is a battle that he wins again. Could you imagine Clerks without O’Halloran and Anderson? Or an “Amy” without Affleck, Lee, and Adams? No way. We’ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, it looks like it’ll be “Ranger Danger” following Clerks 2, for Dimension. And we’re DAMN cool with that, too. Especially if a casting rumor we heard a long, long time ago comes true…
