Zack And Miri Make A Porno

[Ananas]

Kevin Smith & Co. make 'Porno'

It's a comedy threesome.

Seth Rogen of Knocked Up, Elizabeth Banks of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith have joined forces for a comedy about two friends who decide to cure their financial ills by making an X-rated video.

Zack & Miri Make a Porno begins shooting in January in Pittsburgh. "It sounds deceptively straightforward with the title, but it's a little more complicated than that," says Smith, who acknowledges the topic is an eyebrow-raiser.

The writer/director is famous for pushing the limits of taste in comedies that also are tempered with touching moments, such as Chasing Amy, Dogma and Clerks II. In Zack & Miri, however, the touching moments may also be moments of touching.

"Everything I've done, on the surface, seems off-putting to some audience or other, but if you sit down and watch the flicks, you'll see they're sweet-natured and not angry or hateful or provocative for the sake of being provocative," Smith says.

The story is about two platonic friends who discover feelings for each other while trying to earn some cash. The awkwardness of the circumstance and the characters' unsexiness fuel the jokes.

"It's very much a love story," Smith says. "Zack and Miri just want to make a good old-fashioned dirty movie."

[ROC]

This so has movie of the year written all over it, in all honesty. You've got Rogen, who is going from Judd Apatow to Kevin Smith who are amazingly similar in their comedic writing. You've got Elizabeth Banks, who frankly I'd watch in anything, never mind the fact that she is amazingly funny. Jeff Anderson getting more work with Smith is awesome, and while it probably won't happen, I'd love to see Trevor Fehrman make an appearance.

[punky]

If the guy from Opie & Anthony is Jim Norton, than this movie is gonna kick all sorts of ass.

[Ananas]

It is. I was just listening to a clip of O&A from this morning where they talk briefly about the flick with Kevin. Norton's role will apparently be "small but memorable".

[Fitzy]

I shall watch the movie for Jim Norton.

[BlackFlagg]

Hopefully it'll result in a new Norton line to be re-used over and over instead of "He stinks and I don't like him!" from his Spidey cameo, heh

[Ananas]

For those who haven't seen, EW posted a one page excerpt from the script a while back. The dialogue seems totally up Banks' and Rogen's alley.

EDIT: Sort of useless without actually proving a link I suppose.

Edited November 17, 2007 by GoodGodWhatABeatnik