To my mind, one of the coolest trends in movies these days is the wacky collaborations that keep making the news. Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen and "The Green Hornet"? Kenneth Branagh and "Thor"? Add another unlikely, though definitely dynamic, duo to the group: Kevin Smith and Mitch Albom.
The "Clerks" director and the "Tuesdays with Morrie" author will be teaming up for a movie adaptation of the Warren Zevon song, "Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)."
You heard that right. Nothing in the previous sentence is a typo. This mad scientist alliance is happening, as Smith exclusively revealed to MTV News, and he’s pumped up about it.
Zevon, for those not in the know, was a rock ‘n' roll singer-songwriter whose hit 1978 album "Excitable Boy" went platinum. The track "Werewolves of London"? That be Zevon. He died of cancer in 2003. A year before his death, Zevon and Albom, who’s a longtime hockey buff and former sports writer for the Detroit Free Press, decided to write a song together. Albom composed the lyrics, Zevon took care of the music, and together they came up with “Hit Somebody,” an organ-driven story in song that’s reminiscent of work by Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie and Randy Newman.
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