Kevin Smith Will Still Release ‘Clerks 3’ And ‘Mallrats 2’ In Some Form
Just over a week ago, we learned fromKevin Smiththat he was working on a sequel toJay and Silent Bob Strike Backthat would take aim at Hollywood’s nostalgia obsession by getting nostalgic himself withJay and Silent Bob Reboot. While that was good news for his most loyal fans, it also came with some bad news about two other projects that took the director back into his own View Askewniverse.
Clerks 3andMallrats 2have been in the works for awhile now, but a couple problems have held them back from being made as feature film. But since Kevin Smith loves his fans, he’s going to make sure that he gets them out to the public in some form. Find out more below.ComicBook.comlistened to the most recent episode ofKevin’s Smith’s Smodcast podcast, and there he offered this promise to his fans who want to know whatMallrats 2andClerks 3would have offered up:
Smith seems more sure about theMallratscomic than theClerksone, and that’s likely because he has much more material for theMallratssequel since it started as a movie but turned intoa TV series calledMallbratsinstead. The episodes he wrote for that show would likely make for a good limited comic book run.
As someone who spent their teenage years enjoying Kevin Smith’s older movies, I wouldn’t mind reading theClerks 3script, but I probably wouldn’t be quite as interested in aMallrats 2comic book, but Smith has plenty of fans who would flip through those pages to find out what happened to Randall & Dante and Brodie & T.S., not to mention the supporting characters from those movies.
There is a downside to this though, and that’s Kevin Smith’s predilection towards not following through completely on comic book projects.Bleeding Coolnotes:
“Smith hasn’t exactly had the best track record of follow-through with his comic books. In 2002, he launched two six issue minis at Marvel,Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men DoandDaredevil/Bullseye: Target. The former was delayed by three years before being completed, and the latter only ever managed to see one issue published. Smith’s 2010Batmanmini-series,The Widening Gyre, was meant to be 12 issues, but ended at six when it became clear Smith wouldn’t be able to complete it. The remaining issues were supposed to be published in 2014 as a new mini,Batman: Bellicosity, but that never happened either.”
That doesn’t inspired much confidence, and those were comic books where Kevin Smith was just as passionate about the characters as he probably is about his own material. But maybe Smith has a creative fire lit under his ass, and he’ll make it happen. If the comic books take too long to come to fruition, well, it just takes a few clicks to toss those Clerks 3 and Mallrats 2 scripts on the web.
