There's some intriguing casting news out of this year's Comic Con from the man who gave us Jay and Silent Bob about his upcoming Westboro Baptist Church-inspired horror film Red State.
During his annual Comic Con appearance, director Kevin Smith announced that veteran character actor Michael Parks would be playing the Fred Phelps inspired character. The homophobic Topeka church was coincidentally protesting Comic Con at the time of the announcement. Synergy!
Quentin Tarantino fanboys will recognize Parks from his recurring role as lawman Earl McGraw in Grindhouse, Kill Bill and the From Dusk Till Dawn vampire movies. He's been bumming around movies and television shows since the '60s, and is something of a badass in the old-school sense we don't see enough of these days. Most actors now are boy-men.
A group of kids encounters a crazed preacher (based on Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church) who gives a whole new meaning to the term "extreme fundamentalism."
I know some of you are bothered by the idea of the Phelps family actually getting off on this, but do we really want to give the Phelps family the power that comes with being something so forbidden? Maybe the more we joke about them, the more deflated and insignificant they'll seem.
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I'll be there for this flick, I like Kevin Smith movies and want to laugh at the Phelps hate group
Parks is kind of a bad ass. I remember him best from the old series, Then Came Bronson. He rode a Harley in it, long before it became the motorcycle of choice for dentists and women with spiky hair.
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