Kevin Smith's new plan to finance "Red State" is...
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Been awhile since we last visited the progress (or lack thereof) on Kevin Smith's cash-strapped horror pic Red State. Smith has been trying to score financing for the film for quite some time, and while the latest news had financing possibly coming throguh for the project, apparently...that has fallen through. Which has left Smith to ponder other methods. What would those methods be you ask? Well in a recent chat with Cinssu, Smith revealed that he's trying to get his fans to finance the production! "We're kind of creating this website," he explains. "We're seeing if it works to set up and collect donations. It becomes a weird tax nightmare, though. It sounded like such an easy thing online...but now there's lots of checks and balances to make sure we can do it, but if that's the case, I would be into it, and I'll match it. Whatever you raise on line, like fuck it, you put it up, I'll put it up." |
Um...okay. In today's economy, I'm sure that won't be a problem. Meanwhile, on the subject of the movies content, Kevin described "Red State" as..."vicious and nasty and mean and stark..." adding "...it's not funny...It's this weird fucking dark little seventies horror movie...that nobody wants to make." I'd love to see this film get made, and blow us all away, but raising money for a movie from regular folks in a job-strapped and cash-strapped 2010 U.S.A.? Good luck. "Red State" is inspired by the "Westboro Baptist Church" located in Topeka, Kansas...a controversial militant church group which consists largely of members of the Phelps family and is run by preacher Fred Phelps. The film is about outsiders who stumble into "fundamentalism gone to the extreme" in Middle America.
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