'RED STATE 2' - Kevin Smith Teases Possible Plans For Sequel To RED STATE
Writer/Director Kevin Smith first jumped into the horror genre back in 2011 with a little film called Red State. The flick borrowed heavily from cults that sprang up in the 70s and even had a Wako, Texas feel to it as well but over all it was a good flick. Could a sequel be on the way all these years later?
/Film reports that Smith announced plans for Red State 2 while promoting Clerks III at a recent screening.
Smith revealed that it was Lionsgate, who also distributed Clerks III, who reached out about a potential sequel, “They were like, if we do this, would you do it again? And I was like, yeah, in a heartbeat. […] I mean, obviously, Michael Parks is gone. But it’s just a story of crazy people with guns and s*** like that. As long as I could use John Goodman again. I could make a hundred f****** Red States. And I’m like, let’s do it. So we’re gonna make one.”
From what we can gather, there is no script or even a draft of this sequel as of yet but the fact that Lionsgate is even interested is a big deal.
The thriller starred Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Golden Globe winner John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane), alongside Michael Parks (Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2), Kyle Gallner (Smile) and Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects).
About Smith’s 2011 horror movie: “Three teenage boys are lured to the town of Cooper’s Dell with the promise of a party. But instead of enjoying the night of their dreams, the teens are plunged into the nightmarish world of Pastor Abin Cooper and the Five Points Trinity, a fundamentalist group with a stockpile of weaponry and a deadly moral agenda. When word of the teens’ disappearance reaches the authorities, a military task force is mobilized. With Cooper’s Dell teetering between salvation and damnation, the ATF braces for furious gun battle with Cooper and his heavily armed followers in this fever-pitched action thriller from writer-director Kevin Smith.”
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