Red State Ready To Go!

Kevin Smith fans have been waiting 4 years for Red State to come together, and now the wait is closer to being over.

Red State will begin production sometime this summer and Smith has announced via his Twitter stream that he has started contacting actors and locations regarding the flick.

Without a lot of information coming out as of yet we are essentially going on what Kevin Smith tweets. And he tweets a lot.

"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."

Smith has never made a horror flick before, but with a loyal fan base and cult like DVD following there is little doubt that he will be able to turn a profit on the reported $20 million budget.

Here’s another blurb Smith gave out regarding the premise of the flick.

"The movie’s called ‘Red State’ and it’s very much about that subject matter, that point of view and that position taken to the absolute extreme. It’s certainly not (Fred) Phelps himself but it’s very much inspired by a Phelps figure,” revealed Smith. “And to me, too, the notion of using a Phelps-like character as a villain, as horrifying and scary as that guy can be, there’s even something more insidious than him that lurks out there in as much as a public or a government that allows it and that’s the other thing that I’m trying to examine in a big, big way. It’s weird because for a few months I’ve been saying ‘horror movie’ and technically it is, but it’s also not a very traditional horror movie in the sense that people have been asking me, ‘Is it a slasher movie? Is it like the Japanese horror flicks?’ It’d be much easier to just show it to them when I’m done and be like, ‘This is what I meant.’ At which point I’m sure there’ll be people saying, ‘This ain’t a horror movie!’ But to me, it is."

There you have it fans. Keep your eyes peeled for more info as we get it.