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Michelle Trachtenberg and Jim Norton Join A Couple of Dicks
Posted on Monday, June 29th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Kevin Smith’s buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks has been filming in and around New York City for a month now, but a few more names have been added to the cast list. Last night we told you that Jason Lee would be filming a small part in the film, and tonight Variety confirms our earlier report and adds one more name to the list: Michelle Trachtenberg, best known as Dawn Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl. Comedian Jim Norton (of Opie & Anthony fame) also has a small role in the film, which he filmed earlier today (see his Tweet). Trachtenberg will play the daughter of Willis’ character, and Lee will portray her stepfather.
Kevin Smith will be re-teaming with Mallrats star Jason Lee once again. According to /Film reader Drake Rivera, Smith announced on Kevin Pollack’s Live Show on Sunday afternoon that Lee would have a role in his new buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks.
According to the report, Smith said that Lee would shoot for a couple of days, but didn’t reveal which role the My Name is Earl star would play. Lee has appeared in many of Smith’s films, including Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, as well as cameos in Jersey Girl and Clerks II.
Kevin Smith’s R-Rated buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks began filming in New York this week, and a few photos from the set have begun showing up online. The first photo, above, comes from accidentalsexiness, and features Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis in a car. After the first day of shooting, Smith tweeted “Bruce & Tracy are so good together, you’d think this was the sequel.” More photos after the jump, including a look at Morgan dressed in a giant cell phone costume and the film’s production logo.
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Kevin Pollak Joins Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks
Posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Comedian/Actor Kevin Pollak revealed on Twitter that he has been offered a role in Kevin Smith’s upcoming R-Rated buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks. Pollack tweeted:
“Offer from @ThatKevinSmith to join ol’ pal B. Willis & crazy Tracy Morgan in his Couple of Dicks has me smiling huge. See ya in nyc fellas.”
No word on which character Pollack would play. Three big male roles that haven’t been cast/announced include the rich father of Willis’ daughter’s fiance, the sports memorabilia-obsessed gangster and a memorabilia store owner. Smith just wrapped Day one of filming and tweeted the following:
“Wrapped Day One on A COUPLE OF DICKS without being one or sucking one. Bruce & Tracy are so good together, you’d think this was the sequel.”
Ana de la Reguera Joins Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks
Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
A tiny exclusive: Film’s New York City spies tell me that Ana de la Reguera (best known as Sister Encarnacion in Nacho Libre) has joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks as the third major lead. The R-Rated buddy cop comedy stars Tracy Mogan and Bruce Willis as two veteran LAPD detectives who attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card, get tangled with a sports memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Reguera plays a Mexican beauty named Gabriela, who is rescued by the duo and might hold the key to millions in laundered drug money.
Adam Bordy and Sean William Scott also have roles in the film. Written by Robb and Marc Cullen, and featured on the 2008 Black List (a Hollywood insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year), A Couple of Dicks is tentatively scheduled to hit theaters on February 26th 2010.
Adam Brody and Seann William Scott Join Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks
Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Adam Brody and Seann William Scott have joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks. The R-Rated buddy cop comedy stars Tracy Mogan and Bruce Willis as two veteran LAPD detectives who attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card, get tangled with a sports memorabilia-obsessed gangster and rescue a Mexican beauty who might hold the key to millions in laundered drug money. I’ve read an earlier draft of the script, and it’s funny in a very different way than any of Smith’s previous films.
Scott plays a thief known as “the Shit Bandit,” as he is notorious for leaving a surprise trademark behind in the bathroom after robbing a house. Brody plays an “abrasive detective” who is not happy to be working with Willis and Morgan. Scott appeared briefly in Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Written by Robb and Marc Cullen, and featured on the 2008 Black List (a Hollywood insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year), A Couple of Dicks is tentatively scheduled to hit theaters on February 26th 2010.
source: THR
Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Movie is Finally Going to Be Released
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Five years ago Kevin Smith was hired to write and direct a big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet. Smith dropped out after getting cold feet, fearing he wouldn’t be able to handle an action -heavy big budget comic book film. As many of you know, the film since passed on to Seth Rogen who is co-writing and will star as the title character in a Michel Gondry-directed adaptation. But it looks like Smith will be revisiting his Green Hornet story…
A famous venerable legend tells the story of a New Yorker who is approached in the street near Carnegie Hall, and asked, “Pardon me sir, but how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” He replies, “Practice, practice, practice.” Writer/Filmmaker/Entertainer Kevin Smith has announced that he will be doing one of his live events, An Evening With Kevin Smith, in New York City at the famous legendary Carnegie Hall. The show is going to take place on June 17th 2009 at 8:00pm.
Tickets go on sale at 11:00am eastern time on Thursday morning. Carnegie Hall won’t be officially announcing the show/sales info to the rest of the world until April 20th. So you have a few days to grab tickets before the rest of New York. You can find more information and order tickets here.
Even some of my friends who aren’t fans of Smith’s work love hearing his stories. Smith is hilarious live. If you havent already, check out the dvd releases of his previous stand-ups: An Evening with Kevin Smith, An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, and SOLD OUT: A Threevening with Kevin Smith. If you’ve never heard Smith tell the story of his experiences writing a new Superman movie, check it out now on YouTube.
Last month we posted a segment of Lee Stanhan’s interview with Kevin Smith, where the filmmaker talked about the dark side of the internet. But what about the other side of the internet? You know, the side where fans can form a community, everyone is happy and angry talkbackers don’t exist… Smith talks about how he found and learned to love the internet in the latest segment of Stanhan’s interview, embedded after the jump.
Kevin Smith Talks About the Dark Side of the Internet
Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
In part 4 of Lee Stanhan’s interview with Kevin Smith, the filmmaker talks about the dark side of the internet. Most director’s I know subscribe to the google alerts for their name and pay attention to what is said about them online, but they don’t interact back with the fans or critics. Smith has invested more time on the internet than most of the people in Hollywood, taking it to an extreme. Kevin was the first filmmaker to build a website community around his films. But outside of the fandom exists a lot of hateful criticism. It’s interesting to hear about this world from the side of a filmmaker, and to learn about Smith’s changing views about this world. Watch the video interview after the jump.
If you haven’t yet listened to the Special Watchmen Review Edition of /Filmcast, you should do so now. Kevin Smith joined the crew and to geek out in depth about the “unfilmable” comic book adaptation. Smith’s next film, A Couple of Dicks, will be his first feature film based on a screenplay that he also didn’t write. Our conversation with Smith was “Dicks”-less, but Lee Stranahan recently sat down with Smith and was able to get him to talk about the upcoming action cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan. Here are some of the highlights:
- The script is “definitely an R-Rated Film” with “salty language in it, but not a Hard R”
- Warner Bros was considering making it as a PG-13 movie (which might explain the brief “A Couple of Cops” title change) but Willis, Morgan, Smith and WB head Jeff Robinov decided it would be better as an R-Rated comedy
- “It meant a lot of us had to give up a bunch of our salary to make this movie, that’s how passionate we are about the flick.”
- “It just feels like a grown up movie for me”
- “You could go after the Gran Torino audience with this movie, and that is a totally different audience than I’ve ever played to.”
- “The budget of the movie is NOT huge.”
- “For anyone who says ‘He just sold out, he’s just going for the buck — I’m making less to make this movie than I did on Dogma, which is a movie I made 10 years ago and didn’t make a lot of money.”
- “That’s the way I think the business should be run. Everyone should take the risk and then if it pans out, we all get rich.”
- Smith says Robinov hired him because this is a movie about “two dudes talking to each other” and his visual chops are now “up to snuff”
- “There are some action sequences in it. On the grand scale of things, not action sequences on the scale of Zack Snyder composes. Butthere are action sequences which are a little more than I’ve composed.”
Watch the video interview after the jump.
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Kevin Smith and the /Filmcast Review Watchmen (/Filmcast: Ep. 41)
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 by David Chen
In this very special episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley are joined by writer/actor/director Kevin Smith to discuss Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. In this epic, 1 hour and 45-minute long discussion, the five of them delve into the faithfulness of the film adaptation, the effectiveness of the film’s soundtrack, the controversy surrounding the film’s ending, the sexuality of Rorschach, and the resemblance between Zack Snyder and Jesus.
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