Kevin Smith Makes Porno

By Josh Tyler: 2007-06-06 11:36:09

The comedy we first told you Kevin Smith was working on here has a name, and you’re going to like it. The movie is a bawdy sex-comedy called Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and the LA Times says the Weinstein’s gave him $15 million to make it based on that title alone. Smart move guys.

Smith says, “It's … dirty, with nudity… But funny nudity, not gratuitous nudity.” Sounds like a simple, sure path to success to me. The movie takes place during a snowy Minnesota winter and Kevin plans to shoot there this coming February.

Before that though, he still has that horror movie Red State to do. The LA Times indicates that he plans to give his extreme fundamentalist horror movie a “naturalistic, drive-in feel”. Of it Smith reiterates his earlier insistence that this won’t be a traditional horror movie. He says, “Horror is more than a dude with a chain saw.”

It looks like he’s already working on casting Red State. Rosario Dawson is supposed to show up at his house to give a read this week. How great would it be if she somehow became a Kevin Smith regular? But seriously Kev, can we get her in Porno? I’d much rather see Rosario in a scantily clad sex comedy than as a crazed, uptight, right-wing, fundamentalist Christian.

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Cody
June 7, 2007 at 15:27

Here's better quotes tying Rosario to the "Zack and Miri" script. Kevin mentioned that her agent had read it, then answered a couple questions -

"Q: Have you gotten any feedback from Rosario's agent?

Kevin: He loved it.

Q: And do you know when she will read it?

Kevin: She gets back to town on the 9th, so around then."

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Josh T
June 6, 2007 at 22:58

Yeah, I read those quotes on Kevin's board too Cody. That doesn't necessarily mean the LA Times is wrong. They don't need a finished script for her to read for them.

It's quite possible the LA Times screwed up, but I'm just saying until we know that for certain I think all we can do is take them at face value.

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Cody
June 6, 2007 at 22:56

"Got anything to back up your claim Cody?"

It would take some digging through Kevin's message board posts and blogs, but the quotes are out there.

Here's one from the morning Kevin finished the "Zack and Miri" script (May 9th) - "Now, onto "Red State"... Well, not now. First I'm gonna sleep. Then, I'll take some down-time to work on this current bad boy before launching into the "Red State" script."

The first draft of Z&M was then officially dated May 14th. It took him about 2 months to write that, so I doubt he's knocked out a draft of RS in the time since then. (And if he had, I'm sure he would've posted about it.)

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Josh T
June 6, 2007 at 18:54

Tim, the LA Times article is bsolutely poorly written and not entirely clear.

However, the sentence about Rosario is in a paragraph which begins by talking about Red State, and there's no mention of Zack and Miki anywhere around it.

To me they seem to be saying she's reading for Red State, not Zack and Miki.

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tim
June 6, 2007 at 18:33

seriously can't wait.

the story, i think, suggests that rosario will be reading the Zack and Muri script this week, not the Red State script. as far as i remember, kevin smith kind of wrote the new one with her in mind.

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Josh T
June 6, 2007 at 18:20

The LA Times piece is written as if Rosario is reading for Red State. If that's not the case, fine by me. Like I said, I'd rather see her in Zack and Miki.

Got anything to back up your claim Cody?

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Cody
June 6, 2007 at 18:19

The mention's placement in the article was a bit off, the script Rosario Dawson will be reading this week is "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", which was written with her in mind. "Red State" hasn't been written yet.

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