It looks as though Kevin Smith’s Clerks 3 has been given a green light… and will begin production by June 2015. And the best part? Jay and Silent Bob will return.
It’s perhaps one of the most highly-anticipated movies that Kevin Smith never made… but finally, Clerks 3 has been given the go ahead. Of course, this likely means the return of a number of fan favourites. And that includes Jay and Silent Bob.
Appearing on Smodcast #312, Kevin Smith revealed that production of Clerks 3 will begin this coming June… and it looks as though Jay and Silent Bob will be back.
“They’re in the movie as much as they were in Clerks and Clerks II,” he said (via Movie Pilot). And he even offered up some info about what we can expect from the Clerks sequel.
“The first ten minutes are in black and white,” he said. “We do enough black and white that kinda makes sense. But I like where [the story] f**king goes so much. It’s my favorite soap opera now. It’s kinda like The Empire Strikes Back of the Clerks movies. It doesn’t tell the middle story, but it has that kinda feeling.”
Of course, Jeff Anderson will also reprise the role of Randall… and it seems he rather likes Kevin Smith’s script.
“I like the script,” he said. “It’s being introduced to these characters that are friends. Friends of mine. Friends of ours. Whether or not I was going to do the movie, I wanted to read the script. Just for closure for myself! F*ck the fans, I just wanna know!”
“Yeah, it’s a very different movie and that’s what I like about it,” he added. “Clerks II was a very different movie from [the first], but it wasn’t THAT different. Clerks III… still not that different, but different in a different way. Different, different, different, different.”
“Clerks to me was a gritty movie. Clerks II became this brighter movie. Clerks III to me feels somewhere between 1 and 2. It feels a little gritty and we go back to the beginning stages, but we do see the progression.”
Of course it won’t be until 2016 that we finally get to see what’s happened to Randall and Dante since Clerks 2. But I’m sure we’ll all speculate in the meantime.
What do you think of Clerks 3 so far? Are you looking forward to seeing Jay and Silent Bob once more? Let us know what you think in the comments below…
