Kevin smith

Kevin Patrick Smith (Red Bank, New Jersey, August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter and film director and the founder of View Askew Productions. He is also known as a comic book writer.

Smith's films often star the same actors, including Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, Ali Larter, Jason Mewes and Matt Damon. Other famous actors such as Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Biggs, Shannen Doherty, George Carlin, Shannon Elizabeth, Ethan Suplee, Joe Quesada, Eliza Dushku, Stan Lee and Alanis Morissette have also participated in her films. Kevin Smith appears in most of his films (with the exception of Jersey Girl and Zack and Miri Make a Porno) and always playing the same role, that of Bob the Silent ("Silent Bob").

He was co-executive producer of the film Good Will Hunting, in 1998, helping his friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to make their film and with its marketing. Damon and Affleck later received an Oscar for their screenplay, although some critics allege that Smith was responsible for it, a rumor that he vehemently denies. In the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back there is a reference to the fact that Smith helped them promote the film.

He is a well-known comic book author. He wrote Daredevil and Spider-Man / Black Cat stories for Marvel Comics, and for DC Comics, and also has a cameo in the movie Daredevil (2003), starring Ben Affleck. In said film he plays a coroner named Kirby, after Jack Kirby, a famous comic book artist. Joe Quesada is the cartoonist who accompanied him as a screenwriter for the Daredevil comic. Quesada is currently the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics.

He has also done comics about his own films, including three comics: Clerks, Chasing Dogma, which takes place between the Chasing Amy films. i> and Dogma, and Bluntman and Chronic, the comic created by Banky and Holden in Chasing Amy. Kevin has said for years that he would write other comics based on his films, including Mallrats 2, a sequel to Mallrats, and Bartleby and Loki, based in the characters of Dogma, although they have not been published. In 1999 he won a Harvey Award for his achievements in comics. He has received numerous criticisms of his lateness in completing his comics.

He is known for rewriting scripts, including a draft for the film Bar Coyote. Although according to his statements, no dialogue from his script finally appeared on said tape.

Biography

Kevin Smith was born and raised in Chapatales Highlands, New Jersey, a city of which he is very proud, which can be seen in all of his films. His first movie, Clerks , was filmed in the store where he worked and to make it he had to sell his collection of comics [1] that he recovered after the success of it. It won the highest award at the Sundance festival in 1994, and was later distributed by Miramax studios. It is one of the highest grossing films relative to cost after The Blair Witch Project[2] The film was so successful that the studios signed Smith to make more films; the next one was Mallrats. During filming, Smith gathered his friends and close stars from his upcoming film, Ben Affleck and Jason Lee, and his new girlfriend, Joey Lauren Adams. Smith has said that his relationship with Adams was an inspiration for his next film, Chasing Amy, Smith's comedy drama that won a handful of independent awards. Around the same time as Chasing Amy , he met his future wife, Jennifer Schwalbach.

Following Chasing Amy, Smith directed Dogma, a controversial film about Christianity. Smith's wife gave birth to his first daughter, Harley Quinn Smith (after the Batman character and Joker's odd partner, the villain Harley Quinn). Harley Quinn and Jennifer have two small roles in what would be his next film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back . In this comedy, cult heroes Jay and Silent Bob want to stop production on a movie being made about them, find true love, and save their monkey.

Smith has also written screenplays for Daredevil and Green Arrow. He also wrote a script for a new Superman movie, but was made to leave the project. Smith has three more movies to work on over the next few years and has opened a comic book store, runs a production company, writes articles for Arena magazine, and makes the show shorts. by Jay Leno. His latest films so far have been the second part of his successful first film, called Clerks II and the film Zack and Miri make porno . He is a creative consultant and directed the first episode of the Reaper series.

Kevin was hired by New Line to rewrite Overnight Delivery (1998), which was only expected to become another bad American video store movie. Kevin Smith's then-girlfriend, Joey Lauren Adams, almost took the role of Ivy in the movie instead of the lead in Chasing Amy. The role eventually fell to Reese Witherspoon and Overnight Delivery went straight to Video. His involvement in the film was revealed when Kevin wrote a column on the internet www.viewaske.com.

Filmography

Movies

Kevin Smith signing autographs at the View homemade, Wondercon 2005.

Television

Comics

Marvel

• Marvel Knights Daredevil Man Without Fear (Marvel Knights Daredevil The Man Without Fear 1-8 USA). First numbers of the historic Marvel Knights who began to guide Marvel collections to adults with prestigious writers and who started with Daredevil. This stage of Daredevil is also known as Daredevil: Devil Guardian. The plot revolves around a baby that a mysterious young man gives to Daredevil and could be the Christian Messiah or Antichrist, with apparitions of Spiderman, The Black Widow and the Foreign Doctor. Collected in Spain in a volume by Panini and published in graph by Fórum. (1998 - 1999).
• Spider-Man and the Black Cat. The Evil That Men Do (Spiderman and the Black Cat "The Evil That Men Do" 1 - 6 USA). Orientated to adults for their theme (rape and sexual abuse). Disclosures about the origin of the Black Cat and updating their relationship with Spiderman, with the participation of Daredevil and the appearance of the Night Rounder. Kevin Smith was delayed in delivering the scripts from the last 3 numbers and the final one was long awaited for years. Collected in Spain in a Marvel Deluxe volume by Panini (2002 - 2006).

Awards and distinctions

Cannes International Film Festival