Kevin Smith Announces Special Screening of JERSEY GIRL: THE SNYDER CUT
Kevin Smith has announced a special one-night screening event of an extended cut of his 2004 movie Jersey Girl. He calls it Jersey Girl: The Snyder Cut, which is obviously a riff on Zack Snyder’s four-hour cut of Justice League.
Thankfully, Smith’s extended cut of Jersey Girl doesn’t run four hours long. His cut is 120 minutes long compared to the 102-minute theatrical release. It’s explained that the extended cut features "waaaay more JLo." Her character actually dies early on in the story while having a baby.
The box office bomb also stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs, and George Carlin. Smith describes his Jersey Girl cut as "the over-2 hour version of Kevin Smith's sixth flick that's closest to his original script, with an entirely different first act that features waaaay more JLo."
He previously talked about the extended cut, saying: "There's a very long cut of Jersey Girl, which, recently, Paramount took over Miramax, they've got most of the library and stuff, and they were talking about, 'Hey, we wanna put out Jersey Girl this year,' and I was like, 'Well I have the extended cut, which I've shown at Vulgarthon,' and if they allow me to, I wanna call that Jersey Girl: The Snyder Cut. Because that term now just covers so much ground, man. It tells the story of, yes, this filmmaker is gonna get to go back and f-ckin' fine-tune and make the exact movie they wanna make."
In the film, “Ollie Trinke (Affleck) is young and at the top of his game as a music promoter. He is both a workaholic and a silver-tongued expert at manipulating the press. At a company Christmas party, Ollie meets Gertrude Steiney (Lopez), a book editor for a New York publishing house. They are instantly attracted to each other, and begin a whirlwind romance that changes the course of his personal and professional life.” After Gertrude dies during childbirth, Ollie must take care of his precocious daughter.
Smith will host the screening at 5:00 pm on Sunday, May 28th, at Smith's Smodcastle Cinemas theater and he will hold a "revelatory Q&A" after the screening.