Kevin Smith Secures Financing for CLERKS III

Director Kevin Smith has revealed that he's secured financing for Clerks III, so for those of you hoping that the movie would eventually happen, you're in luck! He gave an update on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast explaining that his box-office bombTusk helped pave the way for Clerks III.

"Tusk was the absolute bridge to Clerks III. Because of Tusk, I got my financing for 'Clerks III'. A year and change ago I was desperately trying to get Clerks III made for the 20th anniversary... I must have reeked of [desperation], because I couldn’t f–ing find money and s--t. But it was Tusk, with people going ‘Holy f–k, what else do you have?’ I was like, Clerks III! and they’re like. ‘Done!’ Everybody that’s like, ‘He failed, he failed!’ I’m like, ‘Thank you, I failed into Clerks III!’"

Smith is already finished with the script for Clerks III, and is now in the process of making his comic book action-adventure film Yoga Hosers, which will star Johnny Depp and himself and their daughters. 

There's no word on when he'll start shooting Clerks III, but it looks like the movie will eventually happen. It will be fun to see what Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) and Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran), the original 1994 clerks, are up too after these past eight years. The last time we saw them was in Clerks II, which was released in 2006.

Via: /Film

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