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Over at AOL TV, there's an interview up with director Kevin Smith where he drops this very juicy little tidbit: one of his upcoming projects is directing an episode of the last season of Battlestar Galactica! Smith talks about how he was able to tour the BSG set when he was on the same lot shooting Reaper:

"I walked around the Galactica [ship] and whatnot. But now to go back in a different capacity is more nerve-wracking. it is more fun to just walk around and be like, "Holy shit, that's the colonial viper." Then it is to be like," Alright, how are we going to shoot this colonial viper scene?" "

Smith also talks about his new book, My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (basically a collection of entries from him blog) and Red State, his upcoming horror film, which he assures fans will not be a comedy-horror like Shaun of the Dead. Sayeth Smith, "Not Shaun of the Dead. I'm sure there will be a little bit of humor in it, but it's not like a comedic horror film. I don't know how they are going to market it. The last thing you want to put on the poster is "from the director of 'Clerks.'"

It's hard for me to really imagine what a horror film from Smith might look like. All I really know about it so far is that it's about a some misfits who encounter a group of fundamentalists, and that Smith said in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes back in April that controversial preacher Fred Phelps, head of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas (you know, those folks known for their extreme homophobia and for picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq), is an influence on the film. "That dude has always fascinated me and he's really informed the horror movie that I'm working on," Smith said in that interview.

Hmm ... so kind of Jay and Silent Bob meets Children of the Corn, only with Fred Phelps starring as the freaky preacher kid ... that could work.

One thing that Comic-Con isn't complete without is Kevin Smith's signature "talk." You give the guy an hour or so, and he'll fill it up everything from movie news, to anecdotes about life that usually involve oral sex, to his own level of geekery.

Kevin was gracious enough to not only sit down with me for an hour after his panel was over, but he also let me know that he was really digging our Comic-Con coverage. According to him, he was only five minutes away from the convention center, but our liveblogging let him stay seated in an air-conditioned, geek-free, no costume zone. Not that he doesn't love that stuff, but when given the choice, sometimes your own room can be pretty darned comfortable.

In an article for USA Today, Kevin Smith reveals a few somewhat guarded plot details regarding Clerks 2, as well as hints around at the fact that the film may go unrated due to it being incredibly raunchy. This shouldn't exactly be explosive information seeing as, back in 1994, the original Clerks was given an NC-17 rating before it was appealed and brought down to an R.

Apparently it's so bad that, according to the article, "one scene is sure to challenge the squeamishness of even the most ardent gross-out comedy fan." Smith picks up the Clerk's story 10 years after first meeting the foul-mouthed crew in black and white, only to find out they're all doing the same exact thing. However, problems arise and force our heroes, Dante and Randal, out of their comfort zone (The Quick Stop and RST Video) and into jobs at the fast-food place, Mooby's. While the move does wonders for Dante, Randal remains closed up and bitter.

What about Jay and Silent Bob? Well, it's interesting to note that the two of them will be clean and sober this time around. See, I guess some people do grow up eventually. With the kind of stuff showing up on DVD these days, does it even matter that Clerks 2 may or may not go unrated upon its release?

[via JoBlo]