Red State is a 2011 American independent action horror film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring John Goodman, Melissa Leo and Michael Parks.
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Directed by | Kevin Smith |
Produced by | Jonathan Gordon |
Written by | Kevin Smith |
Starring | Michael Angarano Kerry Bishé Nicholas Braun Kyle Gallner John Goodman Melissa Leo Michael Parks Kevin Pollak Stephen Root |
Cinematography | Dave Klein |
Edited by | Kevin Smith |
Production company | The Harvey Boys |
Distributed by | SModcast Pictures (United States, Theatrical) Lionsgate (United States, Home Video) |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million |
Box office | $1.8 million |
After months of saying that the distribution rights to the film would be auctioned off immediately after the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Smith controversially announced that he was instead going to self-distribute the picture under the SModcast Pictures banner with a traveling show in select cities.
On June 28, 2011, Smith announced a one-week run in Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema (making the film eligible for Academy Award consideration). The film was released via video on demand on September 1, 2011 through Lionsgate, in select theaters for a special one-night-only engagement on September 23, 2011 (via SModcast Pictures), and on home video October 18, 2011.
Screenplay
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Travis (Michael Angarano), Jarod (Kyle Gallner), and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun) drive to meet a woman named Sarah (Melissa Leo) in response to an invitation for group sex. Along the way, they accidentally sideswipe the vehicle of Sheriff Wynan (Stephen Root) as Wynan is engaged in sex with another man. Sheriff Wynan returns to the station and tells his deputy Pete (Matt L. Jones) to go and look for the vehicle.
Sarah tricks the boys into drinking drugged beer, and they pass out. Jarod wakes up in a covered cage and realizes he is in the sanctuary at the local Five Points Trinity Church, a fanatically conservative church, after he identifies church leader Abin Cooper (Michael Parks). Cooper begins a long, hate-filled sermon and his followers bind a gay man they have also got captured to a cross using plastic cling wrap, murder him with a revolver, and drop him into a small crawl space where Travis and Billy Ray are bound together. Cooper then begins binding Jarod to the cross, but stops when he notices Pete driving up to the church.
Travis and Billy Ray use a protruding bone from the corpse to cut themselves free, which is heard by Caleb (Ralph Garman). Billy Ray is not able to help Travis out of his tight cling wrap cuffs and leaves him for dead. Caleb chases Billy Ray into a room stocked with weapons, where the two shoot each other. Pete hears the gunshots and calls Wynan for back-up, but is shot and killed by Mordechai (James Parks). Cooper then blackmails Wynan, telling him to stay away or he will reveal Wynan's homosexuality to his wife using explicit photos the church has taken of him. In desperation, Wynan calls ATF Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman), who begins setting up outside the church.
While the family mourns Caleb, Travis breaks free, arms himself and plans to shoot the congregation, but witnesses Jarod still being held captive on the cross. Travis makes a run for it, but is mistaken for a congregation member by Wynan and shot. Keenan tries to reason with the family, but ATF Special Agent Brooks (Kevin Pollak) is shot in the head by Cooper and a shoot-out erupts, causing Wynan to be killed. The ATF orders Keenan to stage a full military raid on the church to eliminate all witnesses. Keenan passes the order on to fellow agent Harry (Kevin Alejandro), who storms off in disgust after Keenan insists on carrying out his orders.
During the shoot-out, Cheyenne (Kerry Bishé) escapes and is captured by an ATF agent (Marc Blucas). Just as the ATF agent is about to shoot her, he is killed by Sarah. Cheyenne returns to the house and unbinds Jarod, begging him to help her hide the congregation's children, then fighting him when he refuses. Sarah attacks Jarod, and Cheyenne accidentally shoots Sarah in the process, killing her. Jarod changes his mind and decides to help Cheyenne hide the children. They run outside to plead with Keenan to spare the children but are both killed by Harry. The shoot-out is interrupted by a mysterious trumpet blast. The remaining Coopers lower their weapons and run outside rejoicing, claiming that "the Rapture" has come upon them. Abin calmly approaches a stunned ATF team and confidently taunts them that God's wrath is upon the Earth.
The film cuts to a briefing before high-ranking government officials several days later, where Keenan reports that he then head-butted Cooper and took the rest of the congregation into custody. He explains that the trumpet noises were not the Rapture, but were a prank from a group of college students who lived down the road and were irritated with Cooper. Keenan is promoted despite disobeying a direct order from his superiors, surprising him. His superiors explain that their initial decision to kill the members of the congregation was mostly personal and that they are satisfied with classifying their crimes as terrorism and locking them up without ever letting them go to trial. Keenan laments this outcome. Cooper is finally seen pacing around his cell singing and sermonizing to himself until another prisoner (Kevin Smith) tells him to shut up.
Original ending
During various interactive Q&As for the film, Smith has stated that the original ending continued with the Rapture happening and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse descending on the scene.
- Michael Parks as Pastor Abin Cooper
- John Goodman as ATF Special Agent Keenan
- Melissa Leo as Sarah Cooper, Pastor Cooper's daughter, Caleb's wife and Cheyenne's mother
- Kyle Gallner as Jarod
- Kerry Bishé as Cheyenne, Sarah and Caleb's daughter and Abin Cooper's granddaughter
- Michael Angarano as Travis
- Nicholas Braun as Billy Ray
- Ralph Garman as Caleb, Sarah's husband, Abin Cooper's son-in-law and Cheyenne's father
- Stephen Root as Sheriff Wynan
- James Parks as Mordechai, Pastor Cooper's son and Fiona May's father
- Haley Ramm as Maggie
- Kevin Pollak as ATF Special Agent Brooks
- Matt L. Jones as Deputy Pete
- Kevin Alejandro as Tactical Agent Harry
- Betty Aberlin as Abigail
- Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Esther, Mordechai's wife and Fiona May's mother
- Kaylee DeFer as Dana, a classmate of Jarod and his friends
- Alexa Nikolas as Jesse
- Kevin Smith as prisoner who tells Pastor Abin Cooper to shut up
Kevin Smith announced at the Wizard World Chicago 2006 convention that his next project would move in a different direction, and it would be a straight horror film. In April 2007, Smith revealed the title of the movie to be Red State and said that it was inspired by infamous pastor Fred Phelps, or as Smith claimed, "very much about that subject matter, that point of view and that position taken to the absolute extreme. It is certainly not Phelps himself but it's very much inspired by a Phelps (like) figure." The first draft was finished in August 2007 with Smith wanting to film it before Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Setting it apart from the majority of his other films, Smith made it clear that Red State was a horror film, stating that there would be no toilet humor in the film.
While speaking at a Q&A event in London on October 13, 2009, Smith stated that funding had been secured for Red State but that he wanted to proceed with Hit Somebody and delay filming Red State for a year. Another reason cited for the delay was that Smith held a superstition about dying after making his tenth movie, and that he did not want to leave an "unpleasant, nasty" film as his last. In February 2010, he talked about his project with CINSSU, saying that he was working through the project's financial challenges; he considered obtaining funding through investments from his fans but this idea was later dropped.
Film producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who had been involved in the distribution of all Kevin Smith films with the exception of Mallrats and Cop Out, passed on supporting Red State with necessary funding. The budget was provided from two main private investor groups that raised the $4 million, one based in New York, one in Canada.
On July 24, 2010, it was also reported that actor Michael Parks had signed on to the film in a starring role, and on September 5, 2010, Smith confirmed that Matt L. Jones was also cast. On the September 20 edition of his and Ralph Garman's podcast Hollywood Babble-on, Smith announced that John Goodman had joined the cast. Smith edited the film throughout production and showed a first cut at the film's wrap party.
In July 2010, Smith stated on his Twitter account that "God-willing, Sundance in Jan for RED STATE." On November 8, Smith announced on Twitter that the movie was viewed by Sundance, to determine if it was eligible for entry in the 2011 festival. On December 1, Smith announced on his Plus One podcast that Red State would be screened at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in the non-competition section.
In the "Commercial" episode of Comic Book Men, Smith cited Bryan Johnson's film Vulgar as being an inspiration for Red State.
“ | "...soon after the film played to a good but not great reaction in its world premiere, Smith ditched the idea of a public sale and announced to the audience (after auctioning the film to himself for $20) that he would release the film on his own in October." | ” |
— Reporter John Horn, observer at the live-auction |
Throughout the months of November and December, teaser posters were released featuring characters from the movie in auctions via his Twitter account with the winning bidder hosting the poster exclusively on their website, while the money raised by the auction went to charity. Smith released a teaser trailer for the film on December 23, 2010.
Although Smith had announced plans to auction off the rights to Red State to distributors attending his Sundance screening of the film, he revealed that was merely a ploy and Smith planned to self-distribute as a traveling roadshow beginning March 5 at Radio City Music Hall, and would tour the film across North America before releasing Red State directly to DVD and VOD.
“ | ...to hear Smith dismiss the idea of "selling to some jackass," neither the rant nor the phony auction was amusing. It seemed Smith had poured a liberal dose of gasoline on a pile of indie-film relationships and lit a match, and some observers took it as a sign that Smith might finally be imploding. | ” |
— Kim Masters, on the auction controversy |
Auction controversy
Controversy soon erupted after Smith's speech at the film'
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