Sometimes, all you have for a story is a headline, and you’ve just got to run with it. Things must be pretty easy around the Marvel offices of late because high-ranking executive Joe Quesada has been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately. Today, while talking about Marvel Knights, Quesada recalled a story from the set of Chasing Amy, in which Quesada and friend Jimmy Palmiotti were set to have their first movie speaking roles.
But rather than sticking to the script, Quesada and Palmiotti had a plan to make themselves stars by reciting a rehearsed bit about licking monkey butts. It turns out that director Kevin Smith was too smart for the comic book creators though, pretending to want to get a good take of the conversation and making them repeat it over and over again only to ultimately reveal he had no intentions of using it.
It’s not quite as good a trick as having a creative team produce four issues of a six-issue comic only to cancel it two months before release… but it’s up there.
Take a walk down memory lane with Joe Q below.
Since we’re talking about Marvel Knights a bit, here’s a tangental story from our Event Comics days but with a caveat, I’m going to clean up the language a bit but you adults in the room can figure it out for yourselves.
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) September 13, 2018
If memory serves that was a two day shoot and one of the takes was a long oner that winded down rows of a faux convention and ended right at Jimmy and I signing books at our booth.
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) September 13, 2018
Jimmy & I signed some comics casually as I said, “Dude, you should have seen this guy, he was licking that little monkey’s butt like it was the last monkey on earth.” Jimmy replied, “I hear it tastes just like chicken… covered with monkey poop.” Kevin screamed, “CUT!”
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) September 13, 2018
Kevin paused, we thought we were about to be sent packing. “Can you say those exact lines again?” "Ummmm, sure!" And we did for like what seemed to be a million takes.
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) September 13, 2018
Afterwards, when we asked Kevin what happened he said, “Oh nothing, I never use ad-libbed lines from my actors.”
God I love that man!
But somewhere on some Kevin Smith cutting room floor I’m sure there's film of two young idiots talking about monkey butts and poop ;^)
— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) September 13, 2018
Just think… if Quesada had become a movie star back in 1997, the money and power of Hollywood might have been too tempting, drawing him away from the comic book industry and giving us an entirely different post-2000 Marvel Comics. Quesada’s co-star, Ben Affleck, even went on to later become Batman, a role that might have gone to Quesada if his acting career had taken off. Perhaps this could be explored in a future alternate-timeline story in Marvel Comics?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
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