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Full Kevin Smith Biography
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director, and the founder of View Askew Productions. He has also enjoyed some success as a comic book writer and actor. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, do feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon, the View Askewniverse.
Another project that has long been in the works is Clerks: Sell Out, the feature-length animated film done in the Clerks: The Animated Series style. The fate of this project is currently unknown.
Smith returned to Marvel for two mini-series: Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do and Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target. The former is six issues long; the first three issues were published, followed by a delay of three years before the final three. The delay in part was due to Smith's movie production schedule (in this case, work on Clerks II) causing him to shelf completion of the mini-series until the film was completed as well as problems between Smith and Marvel editorial over his Smith's original script for the mini-series, which involved Black Cat being raped by the story's villain. Marvel editorial refused to greenlight such a controversial plotline (which would have happened at the beginning of the fourth issue), forcing Smith to rewrite his story to remove the rape sequence, though Smith was allowed to retcon Black Cat as being the victim of rape in her past, as a retconned motivation for her becoming a super-hero.
He was announced as the writer of an ongoing Black Cat series and Amazing Spider-Man' in early to mid-2002. However, because of the fatal delays on Evil That Men Do and The Target, the plan was switched so that Smith would start a third Spider-Man title (originally planned for then-ASM writer J. Michael Straczynski), and even this plan was eventually abandoned and the title (by then known as Marvel Knights Spider-Man) launched, in 2004, by Mark Millar instead.
In 1997, Smith was hired by New Line to rewrite Overnight Delivery (1998) which was expected to be a blockbuster teen movie. Smith's then-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams almost took the role of Ivy in the movie instead of the female lead in Chasing Amy. Eventually she lost out to Reese Witherspoon, and Overnight Delivery was quietly released directly to video. Kevin Smith's involvement with the film was revealed on-line, but remains uncredited. He has said that the only scene which really used his dialogue was the opening scene, which includes a reference to long-time Smith friend Bryan Johnson.
Smith has written a screenplay for a new film version of The Green Hornet. The Miramax head Harvey Weinstein at the time attempted to draft Smith to direct the film, but Smith eventually backed out, noting that his directing style was not really "visual" enough to pull off a big-budget action movie. Though his script is still a part of the development process, Smith has since minimized his involvement in the project.
After being delayed to May, Clerks: The Animated Series aired only two episodes, out of order, before being cancelled as a result of poor ratings. The six produced episodes were released on DVD in 2001, marking one of the first occasions in which a very short-lived TV series found success in the DVD format.
Smith directed the pilot for a CW network show called Reaper. Tv.com's summary of the show is 'A twenty-something slacker finally scores a job as the devil's bounty hunter.' He describes it as "less Brimstone or Dead Like Me and more like Shaun of the Dead than anything else". He also goes on to say that the reason he took the job is that he has always wanted to direct something he did not write, but never had an interest in doing it on the big screen. He has since said he'll never do it again. However, he has been credited as consultant on other episodes of Reaper and has said in interviews that he does hope to come back to the show if his schedule allows it.
On May 20, 2007, Smith received an Honorary Associate of Letters degrees during the ceremonies surrounding the Commencement of the Class of 2007 of Brookdale Community College.
Smith's longest Q&A session took place April 2, 2005 at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. The sold out event was over seven hours long, took place from 8 pm through 3 am (which due to daylight saving time, was actually 4am). Following the Q&A, he opened Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash for a meet and greet with the numerous remaining audience members, which ended around 6:30 am. Smith then hopped a plane and did another Q&A at the Raue Center For The Arts in Crystal Lake, Illinois that night. Planned for 2 hours, it lasted just over 5 hours, ending a little after 1 AM Central time. |
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