Back in September of last year, we reported that Kevin Smith would be making his hockey movie next if he didn’t get the necessary funding in order to move ahead with his long-in-the-works horror movie, “Red State.” This sentiment hasn’t changed, as Smith will begin working on the hockey film “Hit Somebody” (named after a wry Warren Zevon song) later this year.
However, luckily, thanks to the suggestion of a fan via Twitter, Smith has begun developing a new method for gathering otherwise non-existent funds for “Red State” in the form of an online donation website. Smith hopes that his fans will help fund the film from their own pockets in exchange for a spot in the film’s credits. But evidently, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
“We’re kind of creating this website. We’re seeing if it works to set up and collect donations. But it became 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,” Smith said in an recent interview with CINSSU.
Smith seems confident that with his fans’ help the ’70s styled horror movie will undoubtedly be made. With the general demographic that Smith appeals to, it’s hard to imagine that his fanbase will be able to afford donating a considerable amount of sufficient funds. But with strength of fanboys in numbers and the films purported “peanuts” budget, who knows what could happen. A sincere best of luck to him and a sincere: we hope it ends up looking better than “Cop Out” currently does. — Jon Davies
Warren Zevon – “Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)”