Kevin Smith Announces CLERKS 3 is Moving Forward and Shares What It Will Be About
Kevin Smith has been working on Clerks 3 for some time now, but he didn’t think that it would happen. At one point the whole project fell apart when franchise star Jeff Anderson, who played Randal Graves, ended up dropping out. Smith didn’t want to make the movie without him because what would be the point.
A couple month ago, though, Smith started working on writing a new version of Clerks 3 and he was hoping this new script and story would convince Anderson to come back and star in it. Well, it looks like he managed to pull it off!
The filmmaker announced on Instagram that Clerks 3 is moving forward and that Anderson and co-star Brian O'Halloran are both on board. He also shared some information on what the film will be about. Here’s what he said:
"3 CLERKS! Thanks to the good folks at [Leeloo Multiprops], I got to see Randal! Jeff Anderson, Jay Mewes, and I spend Saturday signing stuff and catching up, seeing so much movie merch that's been made over the last 25 years (hit the Leeloo site for sweet signed skateboards)! But even better than that? We talked about making a movie together. It'll be a movie that concludes a saga. It'll be a movie about how you're never too old to completely change your life. It'll be a movie about how a decades-spanning friendship finally confronts the future. It'll be a movie that brings us back to the beginning - a return to the cradle of civilization in the great state of New Jersey. It'll be a movie that stars Jeff and Brian O'Halloran with me and Jay in supporting roles. And it'll be a movie called CLERKS III!"
It’s pretty cool that Smith was able to push this forward and make it happen. This is a project that’s been close to his heart, so it makes me happy that he’ll get to tell this final Clerks story. He went on to say:
"To be great is to go on. To go on is to go far. To go far is to return. And we're all gonna return to the scene of the crime! This won't be the old script we almost made a few years back: this is a completely new screnplay that I just started writing last night! And so far, it's like a dream come true! After mending fences with Ben Affleck earlier this year, I was hoping to do the same with Jeff - so huge thanks to Leeloo Multiprops for getting us all in the same room. But the biggest thanks ever go to Jeff, for being receptive to the idea at all."
Check out the Instagram post below:
There’s no word on when Smith will start shooting Clerks 3, but I’ll be looking forward to watching it when it eventually gets made.