- Varese Sarabande has a listing for the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Score Album on their upcoming products page, located HERE. It also includes a cast list with some new names. Sounds like the score CD will happen as Kevin predicted!
- J&SBSB is getting a TON of press, for sure, even 6 weeks before release. Here’s the full text of that Movieline piece that we mentioned earlier:
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. We are not part of the Kevin Smith cult that obsesses over everything related to the “View Askewniverse,†which began with the Red Bank, New Jersey-set film Clerks in 1994, has been embellished by the films Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma, and is now being brought up-to-date with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. We just like Kevin Smith for being a pleasantly weird Hollywood rabble-rouser and we tend to see his movies for the hell of it. Chasing Amy was the high point, if you ask us, but all of them have their great moments. This one, like Dogma, has an exhaustingly long cast with star cameos again from folks like Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Jason Lee and (ugh) Alanis Morissette. We do not know or care what the “plot†is–this thing is obviously so self- and film-referential that the ideaof narrative threads is rather quaint. We’ll just put our faith in Silent Bob himself (that’s Kevin Smith) and show up.
The L.A. Times Calendar section also gives the film another mention in an article about upcoming Marvel comics-related films:
In Kevin Smith’s upcoming film “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,†his two goofball heroes discover that a comic book based on their lives is being made into a Hollywood movie. “After ‘X-Men’ hit at the box office,†their friend Brodie explains, “all the studios started buying up every comic property that they could get their hands on, looking for the next blockbuster.â€
- The Big Breakfast show in the UK ran a feature on “up-and-coming star†Jason Lee on this morning’s (10th July) show. They mentioned that he “starred with Ben Affleck in Chasing Amy†and featured a montage of clips from “Amyâ€. The piece was mainly about his new flick (â€Vanilla Skyâ€) with Tom Cruise but it stll mentioned his View Askew roots. Lee is also mentioned in a small article in the new issue of “Jane†magazine, on newsstands now.
- UK publication Empire Magazine’s special Top 50 Comedy Movies Of All Time features a two page spread on Clerks, giving it a five star (maximum) rating and calling it the best comedy of the 90’s, amongst other things. They’re not so praising of Kevin’s later work, but they do mention J&SBSB and say they hope it will mark a return to form.
- Finally, Dark Horizons ran an interesting bit today about the upcoming Daredevil movie. Kevin is currently not attached to the project at all, as far as we know, but we figured fans would be interested:
Daredevil – Sort of: The famous Stan Lee comic “Daredevil†is on the way to becoming a big budget feature film, but in the meantime fans may be satiated by something a young French director by the name of David Sarrio has done. Much like Ricard Hatch’s “Battlestar Galactica†trailer, Sarrio has produced a $5,000 budgeted three minute trailer/clip short film now available at Cine Courts which has some pretty good graphics and action fights. The big US film version is still in development under the direction of Mark Steven Johnson.
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