Kevin Smith Reveals My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Will Be Scoring CLERKS 3

Kevin Smith has really seemed to be getting the ball rolling on the upcoming sequel, Clerks 3. What we know so far is that Smith will be back to write and direct, as well as reprise his role of Silent Bob. Jason Mewes will be back as Jay, Jeff Anderson as Randal, and Brian O’Halloran as Dante. Thanks to /film we have a new bit of info to share with you.

At this week’s roadshow event for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Smith revealed that he was able to get Gerard Way from the band My Chemical Romance to come on board to make the music. Way had taken a break from making music to work on his comic book, The Umbrella Academy (which is now one of my favorite Netfix series ever), so he must have a lot of love for Smith to make the transition to composer for a while.

Smith previously offered up some details on the story saying that it will be inspired by his own experience of having a heart attack. The movie will revolve around Randal recovering from a heart attack. The filmmaker explains:

“Randal has a heart attack, decides that he came so close to death, and his life has meant nothing, there’s nobody to memorialize him, he has no family or anything like that. And in the recovery, while under fentanyl, he comes to the conclusion at mid-life, having almost died, having worked in a movie store his whole life and watched other people’s movies, he tells Dante, I think we need to make a movie. So Dante and Randal make ‘Clerks.’ That’s the story of ‘Clerks 3.'”

I think that’s a very cool development, and I’ll be excited to hear what Way comes up with. Are you excited for Clerks 3?