The following contains minor spoilers for Employees III.
Kevin Smith’s new movie just came out worldwide and the writer / director already has a problem with it. Smith took Employees III across the country on his Convenience Tour, screening it for fans, meaning he saw the film himself multiple times and found a scene he once wanted to do differently.
Last weekend, the Convenience Tour was in Sacramento, California, and 24 News Bulletin was there. During post-film Q&A, Smith discussed the scene, in which a host of celebrities appear in a casting montage, rehearsing roles for the film being shot in the film. One of the actors present is Smith’s old friend, Ben Affleck, and now the director wishes he had asked Affleck to do his scene differently. Smith explained …
This is what I regret and it was so easy and I got it and I should have gone the other way. Then Affleck shows up … and Affleck does a De Niro imitation, which is great. I should have made an impression of Matt Damon.
In Employees III Jeff Anderson’s Randal has a heart attack and, feeling like he’s never achieved anything in life, he makes the decision to make a movie. The film he is editing, based on his own life, is essentially the original. employees, as originally created by Kevin Smith.
The initial plan is to hire actors to play the fictional roles of Dante and Randal, then a casting is arranged. The following is one of the funniest scenes in the film, with stars like Sarah Michelle Geller, Freddie Prinze Jr., Danny Trejo, and others appearing to read memorable lines from the original. employees. Ben Affleck is one of them, he plays a character who calls himself “Boston John”. John is a huge De Niro fan, but Smith wants Affleck to feel like a mutual friend in Matt Damon, saying …
Talk about being that Boston actor John, it’s like ‘ah, De Niro is my fucking magnet’. What should have been “Matty Damon is my fucking magnet” and he could have done a few lines of Good Will Hunting. Every night I look at it and ask myself “why didn’t I do another draft?”
It’s hard to say that such a scene would have been funny enough. Matt Damon also appeared in a few Kevin Smith films and Smith actually co-produced Goodwill hunting, so it would have been a joke on many different meta levels. The scene with Affleck is still good, but yeah, maybe it could have been better.
If you’re a fan of Kevin Smith’s View Askewnaverse, there’s a lot to like Employees IIIand lots of fun on the Convenience Tour if you haven’t arrived in your city yet.
Source: Cinemablend
