- Kevin has finally announced his cast for the upcoming “Zack & Miri Make A Porno” and we’re in for a real treat. Seth Rogen is one of the fastest rising stars Hollywood has seen in years and the lovely Elizabeth Banks has been equally as good in a successful string of dramatic and comedic films herself (including being criminally under-used in all 3 Spider-Man films, but we digress…). USA Today had the first reported story late last night and here’s what they said…
Kevin Smith & Co. make ‘Porno’
It’s a comedy threesome.
Seth Rogen of Knocked Up, Elizabeth Banks of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith have joined forces for a comedy about two friends who decide to cure their financial ills by making an X-rated video.
Zack & Miri Make a Porno begins shooting in January in Pittsburgh. “It sounds deceptively straightforward with the title, but it’s a little more complicated than that,” says Smith, who acknowledges the topic is an eyebrow-raiser.
The writer/director is famous for pushing the limits of taste in comedies that also are tempered with touching moments, such as Chasing Amy, Dogma and Clerks II. In Zack & Miri, however, the touching moments may also be moments of touching.
“Everything I’ve done, on the surface, seems off-putting to some audience or other, but if you sit down and watch the flicks, you’ll see they’re sweet-natured and not angry or hateful or provocative for the sake of being provocative,” Smith says.
The story is about two platonic friends who discover feelings for each other while trying to earn some cash. The awkwardness of the circumstance and the characters’ unsexiness fuel the jokes.
“It’s very much a love story,” Smith says. “Zack and Miri just want to make a good old-fashioned dirty movie.”
Variety.com followed up that story quickly with one of their own :
Seth Rogen set to ‘Make a Porno’
‘Knocked Up’ star cast in Kevin Smith film
By TATIANA SIEGEL, TATIANA SIEGEL, MICHAEL FLEMING
Seth Rogen has inked to play the titular Zack in writer-director Kevin Smith’s “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” for the Weinstein Co. and Dimension Films. Elizabeth Banks will star opposite Rogen as Miri.
Film reunites the pair, who appeared together in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.”
Story revolves around two lifelong platonic friends who are deep in debt and enlist the help of their friends to make a porn pic for some quick cash. But Zack and Miri realize that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
Scott Mosier is producing. Shooting is scheduled to begin in January in Pittsburgh.
Film marks the seventh time Smith has collaborated with Bob and Harvey Weinstein — a relationship that began 13 years ago with “Clerks.”
Rogen’s recent credits include “Knocked Up” and “Superbad.” Banks recently appeared in “Invincible.”
We’ll be following the press coverage all day and adding all the newslinks to this story as they roll in : Empire Online, Yahoo!, ComingSoon.net, /Film, Reuters, Aint It Cool News, Earthtimes.org, Entertainment Weekly, IGN, Orlando Sentinel, Cinematical, Guardian Unlimited, Latino Review, VideoETA, Williamette Live, Box Office Prophets, and our good friend Will Wilkins (Radio Askew) has posted Kevin’s entire interview from today’s Opie & Anthony Radio Show right HERE.