- The latest Wizard has a ton of Kevin-related stuff…There was a Marvel Knights preview, where he talks about writing Daredevil, but they don’t really give away anything. In the letter column, Kevin answers a three question letter from Matt Hart:
-Kevin says, “Kraft Low-Fat American Cheese Food Product” In slices. “God only knows whats in it, but you can pull a Homer Simpson and eat the whole package if you want to, and as least it’s not fattening.”
2)What’s his next movie? Will it continue the “Jersey Trilogy”? Will Jason Lee be in it?
-Smith says his next cinematic offering, “Dogma”, is “a supernatural comedy road movie featuring Jay, Silent Bob, angels, demons and God. It stands alone, but there are plenty of references to his other movies, and a trip from Illinois to New Jersey. So its kind of peripheral to the Jersey stuff.” Smith also promises lots of comic stuff “I think the screenplay reads like a comic. It’s closely relate to Matt Wagner’s “Mage”, and there’s also stuff inspired by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman in there.” And Jason Lee is in it.
3)Of the three films he’s made, which is his favorite?
-Smith: “Thus far, ‘Chasing Amy’. It was a very small and intimate movie, and we had really tanked with the previous film, ‘Mallrats’. We needed to come back and prove ourselves and we did”.
He’s also listed as the 14th most powerful person in comics today:
Why he’s 14: One man takes comics to a mass audience every day, and his name is Kevin Smith. In major-release movies he’s written and directed (Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy), Smith has worn a badge of comic fandom with pride. His movies gush with comic references, so much that he was tapped by Warner Bros. to write a screenplay for an upcoming Superman movie (his draft has since been scrapped). Playing off his celebrity status, Smith has preaced the comic gospel on MTV and in Time. And since his movies have been popular out in the real world, he’s cool in the real world. By association, Smith helps make being a comic fan cool. In the comic world, Smith will write a six issue relaunch of Daredevil beginning in September and DC‘s Green Arrow in 1999. And in the meantime? He’s telling anyone who will listen that his upcoming movie, “Dogma”, is heavily inspired by comics.
And FINALLY, in the Wizard News, there’s a little Kevin Smith Watch box. In a nutshell, it says he was at the Pittsburgh Comicon, picked up Danger Girl Tour books for the Stash and tried to get the Nightwing twelve inch figure, but they weren’t out yet. He mentions that the film is wrapped, and that is a Batman reference exists in Dogma (about how Batmandoesn’t use guns).
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