Schon lange lag Kevin Smith die Verwirklichung seines eigenen Drehbuchs zu
Red State am Herzen, doch haperte es an der Finanzierung. Nach der Auftragsarbeit auf dem Regieposten von
Cop Out mit Bruce Willis konnte Smith das Projekt aber dann doch noch in Angriff nehmen.
Die ersten Reaktionen sind jedoch nicht ausschließlich positiv ausgefallen. Daher entschied Smith nach der Vorführung auf dem Sundance Film Festival, dass er seinen Thriller etwas straffen könnte. Im Gespräch mit
Bleeding Cool sagte er hierzu:
The movie that I showed the cast and crew screening at wrap, two days after we wrapped, I showed them the whole movie, that’s the movie I pretty much showed at Sundance with end credits attached to it… I loved the movie, we knew what we were doing in terms of editing it, it was a beautiful running time and stuff… and then we go to Sundance and I sit in the back and for the first time I get to watch it with 1200 people who have no involvement with the movie, no involvement with me…
So I’m sitting there going “Okay, there’s something I thought would work, didn’t play with the audience”, “Something I thought would get a nice reaction just kinda laid there”, “Boy, that played way bigger than I ever thought it would, maybe we should shape something around there” and just found some time to take out… if I had to guess I’m saying five to ten minutes somewhere in there.
And John [Gordon, producer] fought me on it. John was just like ”Why bother dude, we’re our own bosses, nobody’s telling you to take it out”, like back in the old days Harvey would be “I love it! Take ten minutes out,” no direction at all, just take the time out, so John’s like “We don’t have to do that now, we don’t have to really cut the movie at all” and I said “Yeah, but I’m a filmmaker first and foremost, dude, and I want the movie to play as gangbusters as possible” and if the length of Parks’ speech is making anybody remotely go “Maybe that speech is a little long”… I want them to love Parks as much as I do, so for me, right, I’m an editor, you kill your babies every step of the way as an editor.
Da Smith laut eigener Aussage so zufrieden mit der Rohfassung seines Thrillers ist, darf man hoffen, dass ein späteres Heimkinorelease diese auch an Bord hat. Einen deutschen Starttermin hat
Red State bislang noch nicht.
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