Making a return to indie films with his True North Trilogy, (Tusk, Yoga Hosers, and then Moose Jaws) Kevin Smith is now starting to think about television. Recently, he directed an episode of The Flash, and is set to return for one in Season 3. He will adapt The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. And he’s just announced that he will turn Mallrats 2 into a 10 episode series.
After expressing his wishes to bring to life the work he did for Green Arrow, he is now talking about the work he did for another comic book that has turned into a popular show.
“I even told [Marvel chief creative officer] Joe Quesada – we worked on Daredevil together back in the day, I wrote it, he drew it – I said, ‘Dude, I want to direct Daredevil, man. That’d be wild to be able to do it in real-life – let’s co-direct it, that’d be cool, just like we did the book. We could co-direct an episode and then, like, take the passion from the page to the screen,” Smith told IGN.
“You know, they’re gearing up now for The Defenders. If I can get a piece of that Defenders mini-series holy s**t, could you imagine, dude? Because then you’re working with multiple suits at once, that’d be phenomenal………Just doing a mini Avengers – even one episode of that run of Defenders is like, ‘oh, I get to exercise any interest I had in Avengers but doing it on a scale where nobody’s betting $200 million on the guy that made f**kin’ Yoga Hosers.”
If the AMC series, Comic Book Men tells you anything, it’s that Smith loves his comic books. Granted, the show is more about the guys who run Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, but Silent Bob is still on the show, talking with the guys on a podcast. Speaking of podcasts, his Fatman on Batman is another instance that proves his love for the medium. Reading some of his work, such as Spider-Man and Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do, and Green Hornet, I can tell that this is a guy that I want in the live-action comic book world. “The Runaway Dinosaur,” that episode of The Flash, just confirms it.
But really, the reason why I love the guy is not because of his work with Marvel or DC. It’s for the universe he created himself: The View Askewniverse; the universe that revolves around Jay and Silent Bob. So quit talking about what you’re going to do with Clerks, Mallrats, and Dogma– and just do it!
Source: IGN