Kevin Smith reveals the wild film he plans to pitch to Ben Affleck: He offers to produce my ‘cheap movies’
nypost.com“The 4:30 Movie,” the 54-year-old director exclusively told The Post that he would work with Affleck, 52, again “in a heartbeat.”In fact, Smith said he’s currently working on a new project that he wants Affleck and Matt Damon to produce via their production company, Artists Equity.“I’ve known Ben for years, and he was always a wonderful actor.
And then, of course, he became a great director,” Smith told The Post. “And him and Matt have Artists Equity,” he continued. “So we were texting last year and he [Affleck] goes, ‘Oh, I got to blow you up about my company, man.
You got cheap movies. Bring them here.’ I’m like, heavens, all I got is cheap movies, for heaven’s sake.”Smith admitted that while “most of the stuff I do I would honestly never think about bringing to Ben and Matt,” he’s changing his tune for his latest brainchild.“There’s something that I started writing recently that I love that’s, like, outside of my wheelhouse,” the “Dogma” director shared.“I grew up in the 70s, and so movies about Satanism as a young Catholic, that’s my thing,” Smith said. “God, that would terrify me to death when I was a kid.
The ultimate evil.”“So I’m writing this movie about a satanic cult and it’s grown up enough where I honestly feel like when I’m done, I am going to bring it into the boys to be like, I never do this,” he added. “When I call them up, I’m like, come be in my movie.
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