Kevin Smith reveals ‘low-cost’ film he’ll pitch to Ben Affleck

Kevin Smith has a brand new thought a few collaboration together with his longtime pal Ben Affleck.

Whereas selling his new movie “The 4:30 Movie,” the 54-year-old director solely advised The Submit that he would work with Affleck, 52, once more “in a heartbeat.”

In reality, Smith mentioned he’s presently engaged on a brand new undertaking that he needs Affleck and Matt Damon to supply through their manufacturing firm, Artists Equity.

“I’ve recognized Ben for years, and he was all the time an exquisite actor. After which, in fact, he grew to become an important director,” Smith advised The Submit.

“And him and Matt have Artists Fairness,” he continued. “So we have been texting final yr and he [Affleck] goes, ‘Oh, I received to blow you up about my firm, man. You bought low-cost motion pictures. Deliver them right here.’ I’m like, heavens, all I received is reasonable motion pictures, for heaven’s sake.”

Smith admitted that whereas “many of the stuff I do I’d truthfully by no means take into consideration bringing to Ben and Matt,” he’s altering his tune for his newest brainchild.

“There’s one thing that I began writing lately that I like that’s, like, outdoors of my wheelhouse,” the “Dogma” director shared.

“I grew up within the 70s, and so motion pictures about Satanism as a younger Catholic, that’s my factor,” Smith mentioned. “God, that may terrify me to dying after I was a child. The last word evil.”

“So I’m scripting this film a few satanic cult and it’s grown up sufficient the place I truthfully really feel like after I’m carried out, I’m going to deliver it into the boys to be like, I by no means do that,” he added. “After I name them up, I’m like, come be in my film. That’s, like, sufficient. However I feel that is an Artists Fairness worthy film. It’s like my model of ‘Rosemary’s Child.’”

Smith and Affleck met 20 years in the past through the audition course of for Smith’s directorial debut, 1994’s “Mallrats.” Affleck landed an element within the movie alongside Shannen Doherty, Jason Lee and Jeremy London.

The pair have since collaborated on quite a few initiatives like 1997’s “Chasing Amy,” 1999’s “Dogma,” 2001’s “Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Bob,” and 2004’s “Jersey Woman,” by which Affleck starred reverse Jennifer Lopez.

Smith was notably current at Affleck and Lopez’s marriage ceremony in Georgia in August 2022.

He attended the star-studded occasion together with his spouse, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith. Jason Mewes, who has additionally collaborated with Affleck and Smith over time, additionally went to the marriage together with his spouse, Jordan Monsanto.

Smith lately reacted to Affleck and Lopez’s cut up in an interview with PEOPLE.

He referred to as Affleck “one among my favourite individuals on the planet,” and mentioned Lopez, 55, is “fantastic too.”

“And in the event that they’re not going ahead, that breaks my coronary heart and stuff, however I’ve all the time adored him,” added Smith.

Smith’s new film is loosely based mostly on his childhood. It’s set in the summer season of 1986 and follows three 16-year-old buddies who spend their Saturdays sneaking into motion pictures at the native cineplex

He advised The Submit that “The 4:30 Film” “feels somewhat extra dialed in” however is basically “no completely different” than the remainder of his directorial options.

“As a lot as I’m all the time making motion pictures about my life as if I’ve had an attention-grabbing life, however that’s the trick to take one thing banal and make it common. Make it one thing individuals acknowledge,” he mentioned.

“The 4:30 Film” is out there on digital now.