Kevin Smith to start Writing Hit Somebody
Posted by Rodneyon 08. 02. 2010in News Chat
The hockey ballad Hit Somebody by Warren Zevon has become the subject from which Kevin Smith may make his hockey film about. In the ballad, the story goes that a poor farmboy named Buddy who isn’t good with a puck becomes known as an enforcer which earns him a place on a team from Saskatoon. He struggles with his hockey career as the coach tells him he is there to protect the goal scoring players, but all he really wants is to score a goal – which he does in his final game.
Kevin Smith recent took this song inspiriation and pitched the idea to WB to see if he could get it made into a film, and it looks like for now they are passing on it.
Smith’s own Twitter updates us on the process:
@ThatKevinSmith “What did WB say to Hit Somebody?” Essentially? “That movie requires a needle-threading approach. We make chainsaws here.”@ThatKevinSmith Understandably, it’s an easier call with a script. So as of 2/24, I gonna start writing HIT SOMEBODY. WB’s in-or-out remains to be seen.
I am to assume that “needle threading” implies a delicate approach to a small market. Which I don’t know is accurate in a feelgood sports film. So as Smith takes his rejected pitch and heads to the drawing board anyways, Hit Somebody may yet see the light of day. Whether its with WB or not, we wont know until he has an actual script in hand to pitch.
I would trust Smith and his respect for Canada’s sport of Hockey any day. I look forward to seeing what he does with it!
Check out the original song.
Interesting trivia: While it is our most popular sport, Canada’s Official Sport is not Hockey as most assume it is. On the books LaCrosse is Canada’s Official Sport.
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i think clerks 2 made me hate kevin smith. I used to like him, maybe I was just young and dumb.
Kevin Smith is still awesome and I love his movies… but Clerks 2 was a piece of garbage, and I hope you don’t let that effect the way you see his other films.
Clerks 2 was a love note to all the die-hard fans, it was what it was, nothing exeptional(none of his stuff really is) BUT I loved seeing those 2 guys talking shit for 2 hours..
and FUCK YEAH we can trust him with a Hockey film!
he’s a friggin die hard, every movie has some character wearing a friggin hockey jersey
I think there’s a world of fucking difference
between having characters wearing hockey shirts
and writing a hockey movie.
I guess we just have to wait and see.
You might want to follow Kevin Smith a little closely. The man has been an obsessed and respectful hockey fan for most of his life. The reason his Jersey characters often have a Hockey fascination is because he himself does.
He has recently become an Edmonton Oilers fan, but not out of some blind devotion but because of the rich history of the team that he has researched.
He even spent an entire 90min SModcast talking about gretzky as well as participating in Walter Gretzky’s street hockey thing in Brantford, as well as revisiting how great gretzky is in podcasts that follow.
in short, Smith has lots of love for the sport. only problem is that he’s a Devils fan.
Kevin will do a good job.
“Never go ass to mouth”
Whats wrong with ass to mouth?
and that donkey scene was hilarious!