From Jay & Silent Bob to a Couple of Dicks?

If anyone's been listening to Smodcast, then you'll know that Kevin Smith has been talking about a number of films offered for him to direct after last Fall's Zack & Miri Make a Porno.

And the most recent installment of his weekly podcast, Smith and his producing partner-in-crime Scott Mosier discussed how Mos wasn't going to produce his next film to instead focus on making his directorial debut.

Well according to ERC Box Office, Smith will direct his Live Free or Die Hard co-star Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan (from the brilliantly funny but criminally under-viewed TV series 30 Rock) in Couple of Dicks for Warner Brothers.

Although the details are sketchy on plot, the film already has a release date: January 29, 2010(!)

Beside the absence of Mosier, the film will also mark the first time Smith doesn't have a direct hand in the writing - the script is credited to Robb and Marc Cullen. Although I'm sure Smith will go in and do some touch-ups here and there.

Look, I liked Zack & Miri. But it's box-office under-performance obviously had an impact on Smith - just listen to the two-part Smodcast where he and Mosier go into detail about "what went wrong."

That said, it's good that Smith is putting himself out there and hopefully it will work out in the long run - I think it will.