Clerks Sequel confirmed

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Director Kevin Smith Plans 'Clerks' Sequel

 

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By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer

 

LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith is making another convenience store run.

 

 

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The writer-director of "Dogma," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" told the Associated Press on Friday that he has begun work on a sequel to "Clerks," his homemade indie classic from 1994.

 

 

That $27,000 movie, shot at night in a store where Smith worked, chronicled the adventures of Dante and Randal, two guys who talk about life, death, sex and movies while working at neighboring stores.

 

 

The sequel picks up 10 years later.

 

 

"It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that same exact situation, but in a place where it's time to actually grow up and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and talk about sex," Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office. "It's: What happened to these dudes?"

 

 

A new 10th anniversary DVD of "Clerks" debuts Sept. 7, and Smith said working on that three-disc set inspired him to write about what became of those characters.

 

 

The sequel — titled "The Passion of the Clerks" — is set to begin shooting in January. Miramax Films, which turned the original into a cult-hit after buying it at the Sundance Film Festival (news - web sites), plans to distribute the follow-up.

 

 

"It's funny, it's very raw, insanely foul-mouthed. In many ways it's the antithesis of 'Jersey Girl,'" Smith said, referring to his recent PG-13 comedy with Ben Affleck (news) as the widowed father of a little girl.

 

 

Smith is also writing the screenplay for a movie version of "The Green Hornet," but no longer thinks he will direct it. The "Clerks" movie has moved to the top of his to-do list.

 

 

He said he called Jeff Anderson, who played the combative video-store worker Randal, and Brian O'Halloran, who was the besieged-by-strangeness convenience store employee Dante, to run the idea by them first.

 

 

"Jeff was actually very protective of 'Clerks,'" Smith said. "Jeff was like, 'Are you sure you want to do this? That movie means a lot to people and do you want to go back?' I thought about it honestly, and it would seem chicken to not give it a shot just because I'm afraid of (messing) with the first film."

 

 

So far, he said he has gotten only positive responses from the people who have read the script, so he decided to move forward with it. Both O'Halloran and Anderson are signed on, and Jason Mewes, will return as stoner Jay, the "hetero life-mate" of Smith's stoic Silent Bob.

 

 

"I'm sure there will be naysayers who say, 'Oh my God, it's an opportunistic grab at a buck,' but it's not. We're doing it for nothing," Smith said. "We're going to do it insanely inexpensively. The budget will be somewhere between 250 grand and $5 million."

 

 

The original was shot pre-dawn, and most of the actors worked for free and then went straight to their day-jobs with little or no sleep.

 

 

"This time around we'll afford ourselves the luxury of nice 12-hour days," Smith said. "And people can get paid."

 

So this is what Kevin has been calling his "small project" he's been working on. I'm sure there will be a lot of people who don't like the whole idea of it, but I for one am very excited about the movie.

[the max 0]

I'm torn about it.

 

I liked Clerks, but I don't think that the characters are really screaming for a sequel. As it is, the whole movie will end up being inside jokes, so it's not like you can bring friends with you unless they've seen every Kevin Smith movie ever made. If he tones it back a bit and makes a movie simular to Clerks, just in a different setting with different situations, it'll be watchable at least. As it is, if it's the same characters without any growth still making the same jokes just in a different setting, I likely won't see it and be done with Kevin Smith. His movies have fallen off since Chasing Amy.

[Guest Fook]

I've been waiting for a Clerks 2 for a while now, but I don't know if I like the idea of making it 10 years later (although I know it has been 10 years).

[razazteca 0]

So its going to end up being another Jay & Silient Bob Strike Back type of movie where it is only about getting paid?

[Ravenbomb 0]

Wasn't he going to do a Clerks cartoon movie?

[jimmy no nose 0]

They are supposed to still be doing Clerks animated. He said there may be more than one and they will all be straight to video just for the fans of the cartoon. There was this little clip that they put up as a sample of some of the animation work. It's not something that's actually part of the movie.

http://viewaskew.com/clerkstest/

[BlackFlagg 0]

I'll be there opening night

[AndrewTS 0]

If this means Mewes cleaned himself up, bravo. Glad to hear it.

[cabbageboy 0]

This seems to me like Smith is going back to the well after his big attempt at mainstream crossing over (Jersey Girl) essentially tanked. It's not surprising considering he had the hilarious Good Will Hunting 2 scene in J and SB, where Affleck said "Sometimes you go back to the well" (and sometimes you do Reindeer Games).

 

Anyway, it'll be good to see these characters again. Even though Smith seemed to write all these guys off after Strike Back, I kinda hoped some day they'd be back.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Well, I would like to see the movie about Dante moving on, actually went to college, and has some nice, cushy job somewhere where nothing is "his fault," and he comes back to Leonardo, NJ for somebody's funeral or something (here's hoping for Rick Derris, that high school studmuffin), and runs into Randall.

 

Of course, that plot could just become your standard "executive rediscovers his roots" flick, but with Smith? It could work. Mostly I just want to see Randall own everybody again.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

I love Smith's work, but JandSBSB was supposed to end the whole series. Going back would be like making SW: episode I, and noone wants that.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Actually, didn't people want Episode 1?

[dubq 0]

So, I guess all that shit about never making another movie with Jay & Silent Bob in it was all total crap. Big surprise from Kevin Smith.

[Ravenbomb 0]

He said if Mews cleaned up then he'd do another Askewniverse movie. Maybe Mews cleaned up

[dubq 0]

I remember him saying that J&SB Strike Back would be the last movie featuring those two characters, regardless of Mews' habits, since he said that beforehand.

[Guest SP-1]

So he decided to return to characters he created and apparently enjoys writing. It's not like he decided to kill a few people after initially saying he'd let them live.

 

Seriously. It's a writer writing movies he enjoys writing, and ultimately writes well. It's not that big a deal.

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Well, I thought he said after Mews (Mewes?) got arrested that if he got cleaned up then there'd be another J&SB movie

[BlackFlagg 0]

Well, I thought he said after Mews (Mewes?) got arrested that if he got cleaned up then there'd be another J&SB movie

He did

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

First Kevin's doing an animated Clerks feature, then Fletch, then the big news GREEN HORNET (I am being sarcastic), decided to back out of it, now he's doing a Clerks after he vowed to retire the entire New Jersey Trilogy? Fuck, oh well, its not my legacy he's ruining. The guy shoulda retired after Dogma.

[Placebo Effect 0]

Awesome. Can't wait to see this. I'm glad Smith is doing it cheap, as he'll be able to do whatever he wants because with even a $5 million budget, it won't be hard for Miramax to make their money back.

[Guest The Last Free Voice]

I think one word sums this up...

 

Snoogins.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

They should both be managers of the shitty Video Store and Convenience store. Dealing with all the office shit as well as the fuckin' customers. THAT would really hammer the "20's malaise lasting into the 30's" theme, since their jobs and lives have presumably changed...or have they? SOMEBODY has to grow up to be the manager of the Leonardo, NJ video dump..

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Should be Randall, and it happened by accident. He just told the boss to fuck off because he was quitting because the pay sucked, and voila: management position with better pay. Why? Because he's got spunk.

 

Also, Banky, when a movie series has 5 films in it? I think the phrase "Trilogy" is inappropriate.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'm for it I guess. And I'll take anything to make me forget Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. That was far and away his weakest.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Should be Randall, and it happened by accident. He just told the boss to fuck off because he was quitting because the pay sucked, and voila: management position with better pay. Why? Because he's got spunk.

 

Also, Banky, when a movie series has 5 films in it? I think the phrase "Trilogy" is inappropriate.

Well the Trilogy is technically Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy - those are the movies that are all inter-related. Dogma just had Jay and Silent Bob, nothing else. J&SBSB kinda did ruin the whole trilogy feel, but yes, Smith himself calls it the trilogy. But nice try, youngsta.

[1234-5678 0]

The only thing I can think of that connected Dogma to the rest was the fact that at the end of Chasing Amy, J & SB were catching a bus to Illinois.

[dubq 0]

One word for Kevin Smith comes to mind whenever I think of him or his films: OVERRATED.

[Guest SP-1]

One word for Kevin Smith comes to mind whenever I think of him or his films: OVERRATED.

I'd have to disagree. His dialogue is unmatched. He caters to a specific audience and he does it well.

[dubq 0]

One word for Kevin Smith comes to mind whenever I think of him or his films: OVERRATED.

I'd have to disagree. His dialogue is unmatched. He caters to a specific audience and he does it well.

A specific audience who likes to see the same crap rehashed over and over again.

[Guest SP-1]

Same crap . . . how? Aside from the wordy dialogue and the recurrence of Jay and Bob in the films, each movie has pretty much tackled different subject matter, Chasing Amy most notably.