Kevin Smith vs Phred Phelps

[Tuckerfan]

It looks like that’s one of his upcoming projects.

Red State, according to Smith, takes its inspiration from Fred Phelps, a Kansas preacher of the Westboro Baptist Church who recently became the center of a documentary because of his, and his congregation’s, eyebrow-raising belief system. “The notion of using a Phelps-like character as a villain, as horrifying and scary as that guy can be, there’s even something more insidious than him that lurks out there in as much as a public or a government that allows it and that’s the other thing that I’m trying to examine in a big, big way,” Smith tells the site.

Hopefully, he’ll get to work in his ideas in Evening Harder.