Kevin Smith wants Seth Rogen As Superhero

Director and comic-book writer Kevin Smith told SCI FI Wire that he wants Seth Rogen to star in a superhero movie he's developing, an original science fiction visual-effects extravaganza. 

"First, I'm going to do a 180 turn and do a horror movie called Red State," Smith said in an interview Sept. 7 at the Toronto International Film Festival. "It's going to be a total horror-political-psychological movie without a funny line in it. Then I'm going to do the science fiction superhero movie. It's going to be an original superhero that I've created. It's stewing right now. I want to do it, though, and, God willing, it will star Seth Rogen." 

Rogen is the star of Smith's next movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, in which a group of characters decide to make a Star Wars porn spoof called Star Whores. 

Smith said he was delighted with the Toronto audience's reaction to the film's debut and added that the movie tested well in Kansas City before a mainstream American audience. 

Smith (Clerks, Dogma) has also written comic books for Marvel and DC. "I haven't written a comic book for about three years, but I am going to write a Batman soon," he added. 

Some websites connected the dots to a project that Smith has been referring to for a few years as Ranger Danger. I contacted Smith to get clarification and here is what he said: 

1. “I don’t think I’ve ever called it a ’sci-fi superhero movie’; I’ve always referred it a ’space comedy’.”
2. Smith also confirmed that the space film and Ranger Danger are two entirely different projects. 

So there you have it. The only other detail we know is that at Comic Con he said that the film “will test [his] abilities as a visual filmmaker.”