So many rumors are flying around about Kevin Smith’s next movie Red State. We’ve been hearing he wants to break into the horror genre, but now it seems he’s interested in combining it with a taste of ultra-conservative middle-America. Interesting.

Apparently Smith has been inspired by extreme church groups (like the one led by Fred Phelps – check this homophobic freak out HERE) and wants to really dive into the subject of conservatives that go too far, the government that allows them to and the people that follow them. Basically the ‘red state’ of the US. Well… he’s bound to piss off most of the US (we can hear the theatre picketers now!), but at least he’s gotten out of New Jersey. Maybe he sees himself as the next Michael Moore… but a hipper, younger version. Who knows, really.

Now we like Kevin Smith (most of his films like Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma are aces!) and certainly applaud his efforts to try something new, but wonder if he might be just a wee bit over his head. Will the subject matter come off as ‘horror’ (without a preacher gone mad and hacking liberals up into pieces), will his usual slacker audience follow him into this new ‘heavy subject matter’ endeavor, and for heavens sake… will Ben Affleck be able to make a cameo in the film?! Burning questions, to be sure, and he’s piqued our interest.

We’ll just have to wait and see if he’s able to make Conservatives, Republicans and Christians interesting enough to warrant an entire film about them - and make it into a horror flick. He’s got a big job ahead of him and supposedly he's working on the script right now to be shot "somewhere in the middle of the country" later this year. Keep up with all things Kevin related on his official website/blog/self-whoring thing HERE. As Jay would say, "Go get'em you chubby bastard!".