Kevin Smith + 'horror' = RED STATE!!

Merrick here...
A short while ago, Kevin Smith Tweeted that his next movie would be RED STATE.

I talk about lots of stuff I wanna do that either happens years later or never happens at all. Happy to report RED STATE is not the latter. First draft was dated 9/5/07. Looks like we start shooting this July. Took nearly three years, but we're finally gonna roll on RED.

...says Kevin via his highly trafficked Twitter stream (HERE). About a month ago, many indications pointed towards Kevin's next movie being a big-screen adaptation of the Warren Zevon song HIT SOMEBODY (details HERE). Presumably this project swap is a matter of timing/opportunity, as HIT SOMEBODY has been in play for sometime and it's hard to imagine Smith completely abandoning it. In THIS write-up over at ShockTillYouDrop, Kevin characterized RED STATE thusly...

..."definitely a 180 from everything else we've done including 'Zack and Miri' but at the same time, it's not like a splatter film, it's not like slasher balls-to-the-wall gore, it's more unsettling and disturbing type of horror."

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