Kevin Smith Says Ben Affleck Will Reprise His Role in His MALLRATS Sequel
Kevin Smith has been hard at work developing his script for his Mallrats sequel, Twilight of the Mallrats. He’s already managed to lock in several members of the original cast, and he’s now confirmed that Ben Affleck will return to reprise his role as Shannon Hamilton.
Some of the other characters that we will see in the movie include Brodie (Jason Lee), Rene (Shannen Doherty), Willam (Ethan Suplee), Gwen (Joey Lauren Adams), Brandy (Claire Forlani), T.S. (Jeremy London), Trish (Renée Humphrey), Mr. Svenning (Michael Rooker), LaFours (Sven-Ole Thorsen), and Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith).
The last we saw of Hamilton, he was seen being hauled away for statutory rape charges after hooking up with a 15-year-old girl as part of an academic study on sex. It’s going to be interesting to see where they pick up with the character after all these years. When asked about Affleck’s involvement during a livestream on Jason Mewes's Twitch channel, Smith said:
"He's written in there. Shannon Hamilton’s in there, and the actual guy told me he's into it, so fingers crossed, it's looking good.
It was previously explained that Hamilton’s role in the movie would be small but pivotal and would set the events of the story in motion. The filmmaker also revealed in the recent interview with the sequel will address the end-credits scenes from the original movie, which included Brandy and TS getting married, Brodie becoming the host of The Tonight Show, and Shannon going to jail. When asked about that Smith said:
"They will be, yes. I don't want to say anything more but yes, everything comes into play."
After finishing the first draft of the script for the film, Smith shared the following details:
"Thanks in part to the #Quarantine, I finally finished a funny first draft of 'TWILIGHT OF THE MALLRATS'! 25 years after the original, Brodie Bruce will be back for an unnecessary sequel set against the Mallpocalypse! Rene, Willam, Gwen, Brandy, T.S., Trish, Mr. Svenning, LaFours, and the rebooted @jayandsilentbob are the returning ‘Rats in an Askewniverse imagining about what happens when the sidewalk sales end, and 'happily ever after' is easier to say than live! The #jayandsilentbob stuff is some of my favorite conceptual comedy I’ve ever written but the whole script is silly, sentimental, and sweet. And at 98 pages, the story moves like a brakeless bullet train! It’ll be months before we can actually shoot it, but if you wanna know the backstory, I recorded an entire episode about 'Twilight of the Mallrats' for my new podcast, 'Silent Bob Speaks' - available at That Kevin Smith Club (link in my bio)! And now that *this* script is done, it’s on to a new draft of #moosejaws and then the first draft of the new version of #clerks3,"
When talking about the most recent draft of the script in an interview a couple of months ago, Smith said:
“This one is the first draft of Twilight of the Mallrats, but it’s the second Mallrats sequel script that I’ve written. There was one I wrote years ago that was called Mallrats 2: Die Hard in a Mall. Most of that wound up becoming Jay & Silent Bob Reboot. The whole third act of Jay & Silent Bob Reboot was the whole third act of Mallrats 2. They took over the mall instead of Chronic Con, and in Jay & Silent Bob Reboot they were Russian terrorists but in Mallrats 2 they were Canadian terrorists taking over the mall, and Brody was forced into this John McClane type position. It’s fun, but I would look at it and be like, if you were a fan of Mallrats and 25 years later somebody was doing it again, you’d be like, ‘What would that be like,’ and you walked in and it was Die Hard, you might be like, ‘Why call it Mallrats? Just call it something else and start from scratch.’”
He also added that the new script “more closely resembles what the world knows Mallrats to be; a day in the life at the shopping center.”
I loved Kevin Smith’s Mallrats when it was first released, and it’ll be cool to see what these characters have been up to over the past several years.