Fletch Lost: No More Kevin Smith
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Though just a month ago he was happily discussing who would star in the film, Kevin Smith is officially no longer associated with Fletch Won. According to producer
David List, the reason for the (amicable, everyone swears) departure
was obvious: "His type of comedy just isn't Fletch...It's not that Kevin isn't talented or funny. It's
just that his comedic style, ultimately, proved not translate well for Fletch." [sic] Um, ok. So, David, tell us: what is Smith's type of comedy? And what is Fletch's,
exactly? I mean, I'm not even a Smith fan, and even I think this is completely
insane - it's one thing to dismiss someone for a stupid reason, but to
think it's such a great one that you go public with it is really
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10-03-2005 @ 7:52PM
Harry Jarvis said...
I kind of agree with the producer (also not a big fan of KS), as the Fletch source books are not just funny, but irreverent, cynical, sarcastic, & clever, with the main character being a strange hybrid of Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop) and Hunter S. Thompson. The Chevy Chase versions dumbed the stories down too much for my taste. Too many streotypical one-dimensional characters. However, why pick Kevin Smith in the first place, only to dump and say its obvious he was never a good fit? Seems to say more about the producer than about Kevin Smith.
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10-03-2005 @ 10:29PM
Fletch Rocks said...
I don't think anything could explain the producer's point better than that photo there. How he could have ever thought it would be a good fit is waaay beyond me though, and publically explaining it like that is just stupid.
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10-20-2005 @ 3:49PM
Robert Newton said...
At least we don't have hear about Smith's on-again, off-again progress with this project anymore. It was becoming like a bad running gag ("In the back of a Volkswagen?")
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10-04-2005 @ 2:25PM
Dr. Funbags said...
Kevin Smith is a huge fan of the book series, and has often said that his dialog style owes heavily to the style that Gregory MacDonald used in the Fletch series. Kevin was behind Miramax aquiring the rights to the property after they became available - they were pretty much worthless after the Chevy Chase butchering.
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