Kevin Smith made his DC directorial debut with this week’s episode of The Flash, ‘The Runaway Dinosaur’ [read our 10/10 review of the episode here], and during an interview with Variety, Smith has been discussing his experience in Central City, his return for an episode of season three, and whether he’d like to tackle any other Arrowverse shows.
“[The Runaway Dinosaur is] my favorite thing I ever directed,” said Smith. “By day three on that show, I was like, ‘I’d do this every damn day if I could.’ Lots of the folks that I was working with were like, ‘you have to come back.’ So when we were done with the episode, most of the crew on the production side, the Berlanti folks, had seen all the dailies and they liked them and heard from the cast and crew that they liked me; I was very enthusiastic. So they started talking early on. Greg Berlanti sent me an email – ‘any show you want to come play in, you’re welcome here; consider this a second home.’ The one thing I asked was ‘just make sure it’s the same crew,’ because they alternate between two crews because they shoot so many episodes, and the folks that I bonded with, the folks that I worked with, they made that show what it is. It’s a great episode and I give them all the credit. So if I am going to go back, I just want to make sure I’m with them again so they cover my ass and make me look good again.”
“I prefer not writing the episode because what we were able to do with me not writing it was, at least for me, substantial and wonderful,” he continues. “Just as a directing exercise, I was so happy with it. So I wouldn’t want to write on Flash. I would, though, like to write on Arrow. I would love to jump in for a one or two episode arc just to bring that Onomatopoeia character to life. That would be so badass – I created this character in the comics and then to do a live-action version of it that fit into their universe, fit into the run of their show? That would be exciting to me. That’s the one I can get my head around writing, but Flash, whenever they bring me back, I think I prefer somebody else doing it. I heard rumor that when I go back, I think Zack [Stentz] might be writing my script again, which would be amazing – we’d be keeping the home team together, so that’d be cool.”
Next up from Smith is the feature film Yoga Hosers, the second instalment of his ‘True North Trilogy’ after Tusk, and you can watch the brand new trailer for the movie here.
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Originally published May 12, 2016. Updated November 29, 2022.
