And next, their stellar 4-star review of Jersey Girl:
Finally, an interview with the lovely and charming Liv Tyler:
Thanks to Martin for helping us out with the scans!
Kevin goes on to say that it’s “ridiculous”, since Harvey and Bob are the guys that built the company.
So, there ya have it.
At the premiere, Kevin was interviewed and then quoted in this MTV News story:
Good for you, Kev – Don’t shun the press like so many of those other fearful folks!
Part of Kevin’s decision to no longer direct Green Hornet was also influenced by Scott Mosier bowing out of his producer role for that film.
There are currently no plans to cast Affleck in the upcoming “small project” (and it has been written with certain “familiar” people in mind).
He can’t disclose the details of his secret project at Marvel but it will be an older character that he’ll be working on. However he won’t actually start this new project until his Daredevil/Bullseye and Spider-Man/Black Cat mini series’ are finished.
Finally not really news – but Kevin officially does the best British accent ever (if any readers ever get the chance they should ask him to do his Ben Kingsley in “Sexy Beast” impression)!
There’s also some great additional stuff down below in the talkback for the original Q&A UK story, so be sure to click in there as well! Thanks again to
all of our UK fans for their loyal readership.
Asked whether he was worried about taking on the cult comic given that he is on record as saying that he cannot direct action, Smith dropped something of a bombshell on fans anxiously waiting for his take on the material. “I think the way around it is just not to direct it because otherwise I’m going to have to recant, and fuck that! Honestly, I signed on to Green Hornet to write and direct it at a time where I don’t know what I was thinking. I was just like, “Someone wants to give me a comic book movie? Wow.”
“But now I would like to write it but I don’t know about directing, because a) I’m too lazy to direct an action movie but b) I never got into this business to make a movie like that. I got into this business to make movies like Clerks and that was the first movie I made. You look at El Mariachi, you can see what Robert wanted to do from the get-go. I had no interest in shit like that. I like movies where people sit around and talk. I never got into this business to blow shit up or make people run. I sent Harvey [Weinstein] an email saying that I think I jumped into this too soon, and I will happily write it but I can’t guarantee that I will end up directing this movie. He was like, “I totally get it. Just write it and see how you feel when you write it”. So that’s where I’m at right now. I don’t know if I have an action movie in me.”
Smith also admitted to some less than savoury pastimes – watching She’s Having A Baby and Sweet Home Alabama while listening to Sting records, for example, as well as past indiscretions involving a Batman T-shirt and the roof of a pharmacy, the details of which we will take to the grave.
All in all, a most entertaining and informative night which left us with the impression that the only reason Smith makes films is to give him something to talk about, and the audiences a reason to turn up.
Keep in mind that the decision isn’t final yet, but normally Kevin doesn’t reveal something that big unless he’s leaning strongly in that direction.
Kevin also mentioned that his “small project” has already been cast (with some “familiar faces”), and it will be done for just $250,000, a very Chasing
Amy-like budget. It’ll be shot digitally later this year. We’re excited to hear more about this one.
