Kevin Smith’s at it Again…Sort Of

Good and bad news for fans of director Kevin Smith: he’s got a couple of projects in the works. If you’re a fan of Smith’s, this should be good news, so what’s the bad? Smith is going in a different direction than what we’ve all grown used to.

When Kevin Smith released Jersey Girl in 2004, he veered drastically from the type of films that had given him a name in film-making. From movies that centered their comedic value around sarcasm, crassness, and marijuana, Smith went to the opposite extreme, giving audiences sweet, yet fairly drab, family comedy. His subsequent films, Clerks II and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, while not quite the caliber of his first films, seemed like Smith was making a return to his former style. But alas, it was not to be.

Instead, Smith is working on a buddy cop flick, A Couple of Dicks, and Hit Somebody, about a guy trying to fulfill his dream as a professional hockey player through brute force. Smith has also finally gotten the funding to go ahead with Red State, a horror film he’s been discussing for the last 2 years. All told, this is definitely not the type of content we’d expect from Smith, who admits the films don’t fall into his usual m.o.

Time will tell if Kevin Smith can successfully make the transition to a different style, but one things for certain: good-bye to Jay and Silent Bob.