Kevin Smith Reveals That MALLRATS 2 Will Be His Next Film
For awhile now it has looked like Clerks 3 would be Kevin Smith’s next film project, but the director revealed on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast that it has been pushed back so that he can start production on Mallarts 2.
Over the last few weeks, Smith has been revealing his cast on Twitter, and everyone that’s involved at this point is reprising their role from the original movie. So far the cast includes Smith, Jason Lee, Shannen Doherty, Ethan Suplee, Jeremy London, Renee Humphry, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Mewes, Stan Lee, Michael Rooker, and Sven-Ole Thorsen.
Smith talked about the project and revealed some story details, including what he plans on doing to a mall in the third act of his story:
“We've been putting together Mallrats 2....It's been a real, like Blues Brothers 'We're putting the band back together, on a mission from Smod. So this week, we had a lot of activity behind the scenes as well and it looks like we might -- it's Mallrats and so we require a big old empty mall, and it would be nice if we could do things to the mall. So if you had a mall and the mall was eventually going away, that would let you like blow the fucking mall up, which happens in the third act. So we found a place that we can go to and in order to get to that mall before it goes away, we were talking about initially shooting Clerks 3 this summer and then we were going to get to Mallrats in the beginning of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, where we were going to shoot Clerks and then hopefully Mallrats before the end of the year. But now, based on a fucking mall that we all dig that will be going away, the priority has become Mallrats. So the next fucking movie I'm making is Mallrats 2. No word on Batfleck yet...but it would be fun to see if we could get him.”
So the production was pushed up just so that they could shoot it in this mall they found that they are going to blow up? Sounds like a plan! In all honesty, I’m much more excited about Mallrats 2 than Clerks 3. I also really do hope that Affleck jumps on board. It’s good to know that they are trying to get him.