The horror is likely to be the hardest for him to write. “It’ll be interesting to see how it works, because I’m used to filling out my scripts with jokes. There’ll be humour in it, but you can’t really have a lot of dialogue in a horror movie; it kind-of defeats the purpose.”

Among the other titbits that circulated; Smith’s just finished work in the edit suite on a new TV pilot called Reaper, his first time directing someone else’s material, Mallrats is coming to HD-DVD pretty soon and British porn is expensive – he latter perhaps revealing more about Smith’s taste in hotel entertainment than his career as a filmmaker.