Kevin Smith sent his excitable fan base into a tizzy last April when he promised on his blog that his tenth movie would be “something special.” That movie is almost certainly going to be “Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers,” the director revealed to MTV News, “depending on what happens with the next two [”Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and “Red State”]. They might try to stick me in movie jail,” Smith laughed. “But I’ve f-ed up way worse in the past. If they didn’t do it after ‘Jersey Girl’ I think I’m ok.”

“I think it would be kinda cool to go larger budget and shoot some effects on that one,” he enthused.

Movie jail aside (and there’s zero chance Smith could ever get put there – “Jersey Girl” or not), the biggest hurdle to bringing “Ranger Danger” to the big-screen hasn’t been a skeptical studio – but, by the director’s own admission, Smith himself. Call it being “totally gun shy,” by the enormity of the endeavor, he conceded, on a project he once told “Variety” was his “stab at a comicbook/sci-fi movie in the vein of ‘Flash Gordon.’”

But that’s all changed for Smith coming off of the television pilot he directed for the CW series “Reaper,” he boasted.

“‘Reaper’ made me feel a bit more confident when it comes to effect shoots – not like I’m going out and seeking them, but when it comes to one like ‘Ranger Danger’ I [used to think] ‘maybe when I’m fifty I’ll be ready for it,’” Smith confessed. “But now I feel like, it’s easier to work through things.

“I maybe kind of feel like I maybe can approach ‘Ranger Danger’, and not f— it up completely,” he continued, chuckling.

Having done this job for a while, we’ll try and not get TOO excited about a film that’s 2 movies away (a lot can change by then). Still, if this comes to pass, we can say for certain that the big Ranger Danger film sure would be something special, as promised — And finally give meaning to Randal’s famous “Clerks II” tee.