Kevin Patrick Smith (innate August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director, comic book writer, and developer of View Askew.

His films come known for their distinctive vision & dialogue, however are periodically criticized for unrefined humor, limited attention to plot development, & technical indicator amateurishness. Smith's films come typically placed inside his front yard state of New Jersey and are stuffed sustaining pop culture references, particularly to comic books & a Star Wars movies. Everthing of his flick, by owning a exception of his virtually all recent, 2004's Jersey Girl, take place in the "View Askewniverse" & feature appearances from either microscopic-nickel-and-dime marijuana-dealers Jay and Silent Bob, the latter depicted by Smith himself.

Biography and film career
Kevaround Smith grew higher in Highlands, New Jersey. Fallowing graduating from either Henry Hudson Regional School, Smith enrolled at a Just released School for Social Search to survey originative writing, however dropped out prior to completing the program. He so shifted west, enrolling at a Vancouver Film School, however before long witnessed himself enlightened, once more dropping out & running page.

When giving to Future Jersey, Smith returned to his job as a convenience store clerk at a Flying Prevent, yet inspiring a script to his number one film Clerks.. Cobbling together $27,000 from either parents, loans, & a low of his comic book collection, Smith & Scott Mosier, a friend from either Smith's times at a Vancouver Film School, began production on the black-&-white film. To cut costs, Smith listed friends & local actors to play a roles, & filmed when asleep in a equivalent convenience store in which he worked when you took the day.

Clerks. debuted to wide acclaim at a 1994 Sundance Film Festival and was almost immediately snapped higher by Miramax. At first, a film was given an NC-17 rating, almost solely for its unprocessed dialogue. In comparison, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers received an R rating, even though it involved scenes of extreme violence. Miramax & Smith entered into a court battle sustaining the Motion Picture Association of America, and sooner or later succeeded around experiencing a film's rating lowered to an R. the film became a profits on the growing independent film circuit, was shown during non-concert hours at Woodstock 1994, and sooner or later earned a limited national release touching the prevent of 1994. Within following years, it became the far-reaching inspiration for budding directors, proving that it was imaginable to produce the picture for $27,000 & keep close at hand it view wide successful release.

Within 1995, Smith wrote and directed Mallrats, the 2nd film in the and then-supposed "Jersey Trilogy". Mallrats chronicles the romanticistic difficulties of ii shirker (Jason Lee and Jeremy London) who spend their times hanging around the mall. the film likewise featured a post-90210 Shannen Doherty and a pre-fame Ben Affleck. The other average Hollywood comedy than Clerks., Mallrats wwhen a failure using critics likewise as at a pack professional, & Smith late uncovered himself haunted by a tongue-within-bantering apology he processed at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards. Smith late remarked inside his wonder & guide session (An Evening with Kevin Smith) that Universal executives pressured him to cut scenes, including a segment in which Jay (Jason Mewes) masturbates over Gwen (played by Joey Lauren Adams) while she changes fabric, & he ejaculates all over a partition into her hair. Based on data from a scene, her hair would become altered following (every bit famously seen ii years late inside ''There's Something About Mary), but the executives claimed that the gross-out factor was too disgusting to be comedic.

Within 1997, Smith released Chasing Amy. the film follows a story of a human (Ben Affleck) who lessens infatuated sustaining the sapphic (Joey Lauren Adams). Ensuing Clerks. & Mallrats, Chasing Amy wwhen seen as getting surprising emotional depth, & was greeted by owning typically caring critical acclamation & mild pack professional profits. Of Chasing Amy, Smith indicated that Clerks. had been nearly overpraised, when Mallrats'' got been overbashed, which put him within the super freeing position: population couldn't say tremendously better items than it got of Clerks., however couldn't say great deal worse items than it experienced of Mallrats. This status mass produced it real life for Smith to exist as super honorable & vulnerable inside making this third film.

1999 saw the release of the controversial Dogma. the film followed a plight of a wastel& and enlightened Catholic (Linda Fiorentino), divinely chosen to prevent 2 rebel angels (Affleck and Matt Damon) from giving to heaven by means of a loophole around Catholic dogma. When God got mandated that it can never link to to heaven, a angels' actions would prove God wrong, stimulating the contradiction & following in the termination of being. Despite a fact that Smith was a practicing Catholic, many religious groups claimed that the film was blasphemous and organized protests. Smith noted that many of a protests occurred prior to the film was potentially finished, suggesting that a protests were other just all about media attention for a groups than for whatever was controversial about the film. (Smith, accompanied by friend Bryan Johnson, anonymously joined one of the protests carrying a sign that review "Dogma Is Dogshit", & was possibly interviewed inside his protestor pretence by the local tv station.)

Around 2001 Smith released what he claimed would become his final film featuring Jay & Silent Bob, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In the film, the duo tries to travel to Hollywood to prevent productiin in a film according to their characters, & require retaliatiin on victims world health organization post blackball comments all about the two on on the internet message boards. Cluttered using withinside jokes & cameos from either characters in former Smith films, the director known as it a "valentine" to his fans. When a film featured appearances from either many Watch Askew veterans, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back also involved the protracted & star-studded cast & cameo listings that included Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, Will Ferrell, Judd Nelson, George Carlin, Carrie Fisher, Seann William Scott, Jon Stewart, Jules Asner, Steve Kmetko, Tracy Morgan, Gus Van Sant, Chris Rock, Jamie Kennedy, Wes Craven, Shannen Doherty, Mark Hamill, Diedrich Bader, Alanis Morissette, Morris Day & The Time, Jason Biggs, and James Van Der Beek.

in a area of former years, Smith experienced quietly performed wonder & guide sessions at colleges around the united states. Given that he couldn't email each college, & that he wanted the lasting record of what went in at these cases, Smith filmed deuce of the sessions & compiled the DVD, titled An Evening with Kevin Smith. His candid & humourous answers give numbers of insights to the story of his journeying as a film producer. the DVD was such a profits that Smith decided to film another DVD at sessions inside Toronto and London, which should see release late around 2005.

Inside 2004, Smith released Jersey Girl about a human (Ben Affleck) struggling to raise his daughter fallowing a demise of his married woman (played by Jennifer Lopez). George Carlin and Liv Tyler starred alongside Affleck in the comedic drama. a film opened to mixed reviews & lackluster pack professional, largely a effect of the blacklash surrounding the extensive media attention given to Affleck & Lopez's off-screen relationship, also when a negative critical & pack professional outcomes of the few's 2003 film Gigli. Smith referred to a film when his "fatherhood" picture show, & discovered bittersweet comfort that he was respire to part a film by having his have father upright before his dying.

2005 hwhen proven the occupy month for Kevin Smith, as he might start out filming a sequel to his foremost film Clerks., tentatively titled The Passion of the Clerks. Unlike a foremost flick, a sequel is rumored to have a budget of $250,000 to $5,000,000. Based on data from either Smith, a sole giving characters from a former films is Dante, Randal, Jay & Silent Bob. He has too snagged his 1st major acting role sustaining Catch and Release, a movie star Jennifer Garner.

Within 2006 he will work within Richard Kelly's Southland Tales playing the character of Simon Thiery.

He plans to start out operate in Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers in or in 2007. He's described a plan when "my stab at a comicbook/sci-fi movie. It's in the vein of 'Flash Gordon,' something I've noodled with a couple of years. Now I feel we are mature enough filmmakers to tackle it." [http://www.newsaskew.com/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.pl?id=EpypZZVpylSdOYYHHN&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=viewnews link].

Miscellaneous information
Smith married Jennifer Schwalbach in 25 April 1999. She was the USA Today reporter who met him after she interviewed him just about his films. It have a girl, Harley Quinn Smith, known as fallowing The Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn. Each Jennifer & Harley keep around appeared around his films; inside Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jennifer played jewel thief Girl & Harley played immature Silent Bob. Smith's films typically feature a equivalent actors including Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Mewes, and Matt Damon. Comedians Chris Rock and George Carlin have also been featured within supplementary than a single Smith film. Smith's production company is known as View Askew Productions. Smith was co-executive producer for the 1998 pic Good Will Hunting, assisting friends Matt Damon & Ben Affleck sustaining making and marketing their film. When Damon & Affleck received Oscar for their screenplay, critics surmised that Smith himself was responsible the script, the rumour which Smith vehemently denied. Within 1997, Kevin was hired by New Line to rewrite Overnight Delivery (1998), which at the instance was potential to become the blockbuster teenage motion picture. Kevin's so-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams about took a role of English ivy thereinside flick instead of acting in Chasing Amy. Sooner or later she misplaced intent on Reese Witherspoon, and Overnight Delivery was quietly released directly to streaming videos. Kevin Smith's involvement sustaining Overnight Delivery was only revealed whilst he wrote all about his own experience using it within an on the internet column (watch hyperlink beneath). Smith occurs as noted comic book author who has written for Marvel Comics' Daredevil and Black Cat and DC Comics' Green Arrow, and potentially got the cameo role in the 2003 Daredevil movie starring Ben Affleck. He has as well written trinity original comedian books according to his flick: Clerks., Chasing Dogma, & Bluntman & Chronic. Within 1999 he won the Harvey Award, given for achievement within comedian books, for Right Just released Talent. Smith owns & operates Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey, a comic book store largely dedicated to merchandise related to his films; a second Secret Stash in the Westwood section of Los Angeles was opened in September 2004. For the period Smith was working in the script for the Superman movie, but a script was yet cast away once Tim Burton was attached to the product. Neither Smith's nor Burton's vision for Superman were filmed. Shortly fallowing Clerks., Smith pitched an idea called "Bussing" all about bus boys, described when "Clerks in a restaurant". Smith when wrote the screenplay for the film version of The Six Million Dollar Man. Smith has been known to run script rescript, including the draft of the picture Coyote Ugly. (Smith said that there are no dialogue from either his draft processed it to the final film.) Smith has created & appeared within many short "Roadside Attractions" segments for The Tonight Show, detailing trips to random locations around a united states. Around 2002, Smith pressed his bosses at Miramax to pick higher a rights to Gregory McDonald's Fletch series. Smith hopes to helm the motion picture adaptation of the number one book in the series, Fletch Won, with a intention of making it additional faithful to a original novel than the popular Chevy Chase films. Smith hoped to cast Learn from Askew regular Jason Lee in the title role, however was nixed by Bob & Harvey Weinstein. Smith has recently spoken to Garden State's Zach Braff about a possibility of ingesting the role. Extra recently, Kevin Smith has expressed hope that a Weinsteins can vary their mind according to a profits of Lee's sitcom "My Name Is Earl". Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back's fictional web site [http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/ MoviePoopShoot.com] became very inside 2002, converting into an amusement internet site covering picture show, music, comedian, toys, & computer game. Smith has written the screenplay for the recently film version of The Green Hornet. So-Miramax head Harvey Weinstein attempted to draft Smith to direct a film, however Smith finally backed out, noting that his directing style wasn't really "visual" sufficiency to pull off the heavy-budget action motion picture. Within May 2004, Montclair State University awarded Smith with an honorary PhD. Inside early 2005, Smith appeared inside iii episodes of the American-mass produced Degrassi: The Next Generation television show. In the episodes, Smith, portraying "himself", visited a school to function on the film Jay & Silent Bob Last American, Eh!. Smith recounted in the future that the idea was and then dependable, he may nigh look at himself making such a flick. Additionally to appearing in Degrassi: A Next Generation, Kevin Smith is an inspiring fan of the original series (Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High) and refrences to the original come present inside a select few of his early films. Inside July 2005, at the Q & A in Vancouver, BC, Smith was awarded an honorary degree from the Vancouver Film School. Smith cameoed in the 2nd episode of year deuce of Veronica Mars, playing, suitably, the store clerk.

Filmography (as writer and director)
Clerks. (1994) Mallrats (1995) Chasing Amy (1997) Overnight Delivery [uncredited rewrite] (1998) Dogma (1999) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Jersey Girl (2004) The Passion of the Clerks (2005 - announced) Fletch Won (2006 - announced) Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers (TBA) Ignoble Degrassi: The Next Generation Project (2006?)