# Kevin Smith vs Phred Phelps

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-smith-vs-phred-phelps/399286>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-smith-vs-phred-phelps/399286 "2007-04-09T09:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-smith-vs-phred-phelps/399286/1 "2007-04-09T09:03:57Z")

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[It looks like that’s one of his upcoming projects.](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19791)

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> 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_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398570). 😃