Four years after the characters headlined Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot, Kevin Smith is plotting the next chapter for the stoner duo.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith has revealed that he’s working on another film featuring the characters Jay & Silent Bob, the latter of which he also plays onscreen.
The two lovable stoners have featured in Smith’s films (sometimes as headliners, sometimes as supporting characters) ever since the director made his filmmaking debut with Clerks in 1994. The duo’s most recent headlining film came four years ago in the form of Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot.
He did a podcast special with us about that very film, here.
Smith has made a habit in recent years of returning to his stable of ‘View Askewniverse’ characters.
Randall and Dante, the lead characters from Clerks made a trilogy-capping appearance in Clerks III in 2022 whilst Smith has also reportedly written a sequel to 1997’s Mallrats. That project, tentatively titled Twilight Of the Mallrats is said to be held up due to Universal owning the rights, with a dispute existing regarding who would get US distribution rights.
However, it looks like the Jay & Silent Bob characters could well be Smith’s next film project, with the filmmaker telling Popculture.com that “Right now as we speak, I’m writing another Jay and Silent Bob movie. For me and [co-start Jason Mewes], we always kind of have fun doing those and stuff, so I lost a bet with him. And so I’m writing another Jay and Bob movie.”
Whilst Smith’s stable of characters certainly have their followers, fans of the filmmaker who’d rather see him focus on original projects may well be looking forward to The 4.30pm Movie.
That one recently wrapped production and is an original project that is set in the 1980s and follows a group of ‘theater-hopping 1980s kids.’ We’ll bring you updates on either of these projects as we hear more.
Podcast: Jay & Silent Bob Reboot (2019) with writer/director Kevin Smith
