Kevin Smith has pulled the plug on ‘Clerks 3’ but will instead make a new ‘Jay and Silent Bob’ movie instead…
‘Clerks 3’ is dead (for now) but long live Jay and Silent Bob.
The characters who first appeared in Smith’s beloved debut film ‘Clerks’ from 1994 will once again go on an adventure together while trying to stop a reboot of the film ‘Bluntman and Chronic’, which was a movie within a movie from ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ in 2001.
The working title of the new film is ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’ but sadly that film comes on the heels of news that Smith also revealed about the long awaited trilogy to ‘Clerks’.
Smith has been teasing work on ‘Clerks 3’ for several years but he noted in the Instagram post where he announced the new ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’ that one of the lead actors on the film dropped out and it necessitated the entire project being shelved. While Smith didn’t name who the actor was that left ‘Clerks 3’ he has previously mentioned that Jeff Anderson, who played Randal Graves in ‘Clerks’ and ‘Clerks 2’, has hesitated doing a third film in the series.
Smith also confirmed that for now he has moved past a proposed sequel to ‘Mallrats’ as well, which he had first planned as a movie and then a television series. Ultimately, Smith says the TV project didn’t find a buyer but it led him to work on ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’, which is what is taking up his time right now.
Smith says he hopes to get into production on ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’ this summer so clearly he’s moving ahead quickly on the project following a slew of recent directing gigs on TV including ‘The Flash’, ‘Supergirl’ and ‘The Goldbergs’.
