Jason Mewes, Jason Lee and Kevin Smith get buddy-buddy at the JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK premiere.
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Smith talks to Stan Lee

How's this for a fanboy's dream:

In conjunction with the release of SPIDER-MAN, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is going to release a feature length documentary/interview on SPIDER-MAN creator Stan Lee hosted by fellow comic book god and JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK director Kevin Smith.

"Stan Lee, to me, is right up there with the Lucases and Spielbergs of the world," said Smith in a release announcing the documentary. "Those guys should probably be genuflecting at the altar of Stan Lee, because he is the forefather of what they wound up doing. He was a modern myth maker long before Lucas was."

The original production, called STAN LEE'S MUTANTS, MONSTERS & MARVELS, is split into two featurettes: "Creating Spider-Man" and "Here Come the Heroes."

As described in the announcement:

"In 'Creating Spider-Man,' Lee gives a definitive set of answers to Smith's questions about Spider-Man, who may be Lee's most famous creation. With complete candor, Lee discusses the creator-credit controversy between him and artist Steve Ditko; Peter Parker's role as a new kind of hero a kid with real problems to whom readers could relate; Spidey's arch-villains and true loves; and Columbia Pictures' hotly anticipated SPIDER-MAN movie. In the program's second feature, 'Here Come the Heroes,' Lee traces his own personal history and the beginnings of his 60-plus years in the business."

The street date for this is May 14 for $24.95. And for those of you wondering what happened to a long-ago, never released comic book movie that has become something of a legend in genre circles, there's an interesting feature on the disc as well. One line of the what to expect section of the release reads: "Bonus Story: The Never-Released FANTASTIC FOUR Movie."

That cant' mean...? Never.