Kevin Smith Says He's Making a Sequel To His Horror Thriller RED STATE
Writer and Director Kevin Smith made his first horror film in 2011 with Red State, which was set in Middle America, and the story followed a group of teens who receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
We’ve now learned, thanks to /Film, that Smith has announced plans for Red State 2 while promoting Clerks III at a recent screening. Here’s what he told the audience:
"The good folks at Lionsgate who financed this f****** motion picture ['Clerks III'], they put out 'Red State' on DVD like years ago. And the deal lapsed, and the people that own 'Red State,' the two financiers, weren't from the world of film. One was from the world of fashion, one was a Canadian financier not even in the world of film. So, when Lionsgate reached out about renewing, they got no response back from the copyright holders. I could tell them as much as I wanted till I was blue in the face. Like, 'No, renew it!' But I didn't own it. They did. So it just fell into a spam folder and f****** fell out of circulation.
"Because we did this movie ['Clerks III'], we were talking to go home video. [Lionsgate's] like, 'Hey man, how come you guys wouldn't re-up "Red State" with us?' And I was like, 'They still didn't get back to you?' [Lionsgate] goes no, we been trying for f****** years. So we put it all back together and s***.
"They were like, if we do this, would you do it again? And I was like, yeah, in a heartbeat. [...] I mean, obviously, Michael Parks is gone. But it's just a story of crazy people with guns and s*** like that. As long as I could use John Goodman again. I could make a hundred f****** Red States. And I'm like, let's do it. So we're gonna make one.”
So there it is! A new Red State movie is coming and it sounds like if it actually happens, John Goodman will be back for the crazy ride. As of right now, there’s no script in place, but Lionsgate sure sounds gung-ho about it!
The original film also starred Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, the late Michael Parks (Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2), Kyle Gallner (Smile) and Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects).
In the Movie, “Three teenage boys are lured to the town of Cooper’s Dell with the promise of a party. But instead of enjoying the night of their dreams, the teens are plunged into the nightmarish world of Pastor Abin Cooper and the Five Points Trinity, a fundamentalist group with a stockpile of weaponry and a deadly moral agenda. When word of the teens’ disappearance reaches the authorities, a military task force is mobilized. With Cooper’s Dell teetering between salvation and damnation, the ATF braces for furious gun battle with Cooper and his heavily armed followers in this fever-pitched action thriller from writer-director Kevin Smith.”
Would you be interested in watching a Red State sequel from Kevin Smith?