The crowd quickly made thier way to thier seats, as I and a few friends of mine from BS 101 scrambled our way to get as close as humanly possible. Not too long after, The Man Himself came on stage with a hearty "How the fuck are ya?", stating that, even though he never used intro music, he thought the next time he comes out to do another Q&A session, they should play Chaka Kahn's "I Feel For You". Many of my friends (including the Wes K., the other Moron) were scattered through the crowd as Kevin began another one of his memorable question and answer sessions. The questions came quickly, and Kevin answered them with the wit and humor his scripts are known to have. Up in the top balcony, our friend Mike Smith was sitting, and would occasionally shout something down to Kevin, because, well, because he's Mike Smith. You don't really need any other reason than that. They weren't the same kind of questions that everyone else was asking either. No, Mike was basically yelling anything because he didn't feel like getting called on, such as "can I be in your movies?" It's about that time that I felt left out, and knowing Mike would take a cue from me, I shouted "What's a nubian?" (one Kevin heres all the time I'm told) to which Mike countered "Bitch, shut the fuck up!" Kevin seemed impressed that someone actually completed the line through, not just stopping at the "nubian" bit, but I digress. Kevin told many stories, such as how he met Mewes (for the unenlightened, Jay of Jay & Silent Bob), and how he came to work on the "Superman Lives" script.
The story goes like this: Kev was asked to read a bunch of scripts for Warner Bros. and one of them was for the Superman sequel, based off of the comic series when Superman died. Well, Kevin, being the honest man that he is, basically told them it sucked ass, which, they seemed to recognize. In fact, they had him come back 17 different times, each time with one more exec there for him to tell them that the script sucked ass. Finally, when Kevin didn't think anymore would come from it other than the ability to tell his friends he told Warner that one of their scripts was shit, they called him and asked him if he was interested in writing the script for them. Since it was Superman, and Kev is such a comic fan, he jumped at the chance. So, he wrote one. A long one. He brought it to Warner to review, and they looked at him a little sideways. They originally wanted just an OUTLINE at first, as to what he wanted to do with the script, not the entire script right away, so they could pitch the idea to producer John Peters. Now, John Peters is famous basically for two things, niether of them producing. He was originally a hair dresser who married Barbara Striesand once. Warner had Kevin, who never did an outline before, write one for John Peters, and take it to him at his house. Kevin, like I said, never wrote am outline, so it was roughly 16 pages, complete with bits of dialogue. When he got to Peters' house, he was let in and given a strange request: John wanted him to READ it to him. |
