Well this came from my spies watching Kevin Smith's View Askew website (a very cool place and "the model" for filmmakers to follow) Apparently, Kevin felt a bit guilty for not informing the readers of the View Askew world about the Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen rumors, he had heard them before as well, so to make up for being beat to a scoop, he decided to let loose with a little casting on DOGMA.
Here are Kevin's own words, "Had a meeting with Salma Hayek this morning. She was really, really, really, really smart. And funny. And insightful about the script. That's all I'm going to say."
Now apparently this would be for the "Serendipity" role in DOGMA. Wish I had known this when I was on the set of ARMAGEDDON yesterday. I got to talk with Ben Affleck for a loooooong time, and this would have been fun to of hit him with. Ben is incredibly excited to be working on ARMAGEDDON and can't wait to get in front of Kevin's camera for DOGMA. Oh by the way Kevin, thanks for turning Ben on to the site, it was a trip. I'm sitting there not paying any attention to what was going on, off in my "gosh this is sooo cool" world, when all of a sudden this incredibly handsome dude in a dashingly megacool space suit comes up saying, "You're Harry Knowles, Alright I read your site all the time." And it was Ben. I figured he must be a schmoozer, so I ask him where he found out about it, and he said Kevin told him to check it out. Cooool. I actually haven't received any email (in memory) from Kevin, it's almost always via people reading View Askew, so I had no idea Kevin advocated my site to people. This is very cool. Ben and I hit it off real well, sharing a smoke and some candy. You'll read more about Ben and me and ARMAGEDDON later on, but this is basically what he said about DOGMA. He felt like it was going to be Kevin's big mega-hit, the one that will blow all us geeks away. Personally, I felt he did that with CHASING AMY, but if that was just foreplay, we are in for one hell of a cool cinema ride! By the way, Ben looks sooooo different with out the facial hair he had in Chasing Amy. Seriously I barely recognized him, of course that space suit really was distracting, I wanted to just gawk at this beautiful outfit, but found out that Ben is a real geek. And oh yeah, to the person that wrote the GOOD WILL HUNTING test screening review, Ben says, "Thanks"
