For example, the movie that Kevin Smith wants to make after his new flick Zack And Miri Make A Porno is a horror called Red State. Trouble is, Smith says no studio will touch Red State because it’s bleak and dark and utterly noncommercial.

A Kevin Smith film that’s bleak and dark and noncommercial? Is Kevin Smith remaking Jersey Girl already? Right? Right? Because, you know, Jersey Girl was bleak, and it was dark, and, um… yeah. Would someone mind calling us a taxi, please?

This is a bad time you get your movie made, people. All the stock market crashes have hit Hollywood right where it hurts. As we speak, movie executives are trading in their cigars for cigar-shaped clods of animal turd, actors are trading in Scientology for other, cheaper spurious religions invented by weirdos, and actresses are storing up their bulimia vomit in Tupperware in case they get peckish later. It’s a bad time to get your movie made.

Things gave got so bad that not even Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson can get films made, so it’s bound to hurt people like Kevin Smith even harder.

True, Kevin Smith’s films are all made for about 50p anyway, but since nobody actually goes to see them that’s 50p that a movie producer could spend insulating his roof with hay. And that means that the movie Kevin Smith wants to make next – the horror Red State – probably isn’t going to get made at all.

Of course, things aren’t helped by the fact that – by Kevin Smith’s own admission – Red State sounds so completely abhorrent that nobody would make it even if studio executives could ejaculate gold bars. In a podcast with Cinemablend, Kevin Smith detailed exactly why Red State doesn’t stand a chance:

“It’s decidedly non-commercial, it’s really fuckin bleak and dark, so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake. There’s no character to root for, everybody dies. It’s a series of insane, bad choices based on moral or immoral quandaries. Based on all that nobody wants to write a check for it and I kind of get it. I’m not sitting here going ‘What? Why wouldn’t you want to finance a loser?’”

A series of insane bad choices based on moral or immoral quandaries featuring no character to root for? No wonder nobody wants to finance Red State, Kevin. You’ve essentially written The Ben Affleck Story.

Still, we can definitely see Kevin Smith’s tactic here – by bragging about what a notoriously disgusting movie he’s written, Red State’s bound to build up a swell of internet popularity, and that might just be enough to push it over the top. It’s even working with us, to some extent.

And even if it doesn’t get made as it is, Kevin Smith shouldn’t give up hope – change a few bits around, swap a character for a funny-looking puppet and, bingo, you’ve got the script for Saw 6.

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