Kevin Smith Denies Rumors He's Directing a Marvel/Star Wars Movie

Clerksdirector and risible book swot Kevin Smith has keep out down late rumors that he ’s set to organise aMarvelorStar Warsmovie for Disney . It ’s been a baffling workweek for Smith , whose video showComic Book Menwas canceledby AMC after seven seasons and 96 episodes , but alas for fans of the manager , he ’s not moving on to conduct one of Disney ’s mega - blockbusters .

The rumors of Smith direct a Marvel or Star Wars movie come fromFandomWire , who report several day ago that Smith had met with Disney for a potential project . The original rumour did n’t exact with any certainty that the project was Marvel / Star Wars ; rather , it said that " It ’s very possible that Smith will be involve on a Marvel or Star Wars project , " but cautioned that " That ’s all guess at this point . "

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While it ’s still potential that Smith has come across with Disney for some form of underground potential task , that projection in spades was n’t a Star Wars moving picture or a Marvel flick . A buff reached out to Smith onTwitterto inquire if he was really set to ferment on one of Disney ’s two big resilient - action franchise , and Smith responded that it was " easy to refuse " :

It wasn’tentirelyimplausible that Smith would be called upon to head a comic book movie , since he ’s alreadydirected several episodesof CW showsSupergirlandThe Flash . On the motion picture side of thing , however , Smith has in the main leaned towards roentgen - range comedies and , more recently , unabashedly weird horror - comedy filmsTuskandYoga Hosers . During a recent episode of hisFatman on Batmanpodcast , Smith revealed that he ’d determine funding for the net movie in his True North trilogy , Moose Jaws , which is draw as " Jawswith a moose . " While it ’s funny to mean of Disney decide to clothe inMoose Jaws , this probably was n’t what Smith ’s coming together with the studio was about - if it happened at all .

The original rumour did n’t claim that Smith ’s meeting was unquestionably about a Marvel or Star Wars movie , so his self-abnegation of that aspect does n’t find out the possibility that the hearsay was accurate . However , ease up the variety of movies that Smith makes , it ’s heavy to imagine what kind of confidential project Disney would desire him to direct . Until we hear more about it from prescribed source , we ’re chalking this one up to the rumor manufacturing plant simply churning out bad information , as it so often does .