Red Staters

Kevin Smith talked to Hollywood Babble-on Smodcast about casting John Goodman and Stephen Root in his currently shooting pic Red State

Dermot Mulroney, Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner Melissa Leo and Michael Parks also star in the horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.

Root has also signed onto the real-life romance-drama "Everybody Loves Whales" playing Governor Haskell.