Smith, and castmates Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson and Brian O’Halloran talk about making the third installment in the ‘Clerks’ franchise.
Since “Clerks II” reached theaters in 2006, its writer-director Kevin Smith says he’s been thinking about making a third installment of the indie comedy franchise set in a New Jersey convenience store.
“It was a guy obsessed with death, who hadn’t experienced it yet,” he says. “We had the money, we had our location. We were going to be shooting in Philly. We had most of the crew from ‘Creed,’ which had just wrapped.Three years passed, and in 2018, Smith almost died after a serious heart attack. Suddenly, the ‘Clerks’ sequel took on a new urgency, and story, too.
Fearing he’s squandered his life behind the counter and never followed his love of cinema, Randal decides to make a low-budget movie about all the experiences he’s had there. He and Mewes had recently finished “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” – Smith, in addition to writing and directing, also often appears in his own movies as Silent Bob – and for that film, he and Affleck had made up to the point that Affleck appeared in the film.
Smith laughs at the obviousness of the inspiration, but by the time they left the balcony, Anderson was back in.In a separate room at the hotel that day, Anderson, Mewes and O’Halloran all agreed that the appeal of “Clerks,” and the way it has mirrored their real lives, has always drawn them back in time.
He, as Dante, and Anderson, as Randal, also pop up in other non-“Clerks” films alongside Mewes as Jay and Smith as Silent Bob. For Mewes, this is his eighth film with Smith, making it easy to snap back into character. “But now, with all this kind of confidence and trust in us with these characters, it’s a lot more fun.”When “Clerks” arrived in 1994 the black-and-white film that Randal recreates in a meta take on the franchise represented Smith’s life at the time. A dozen years later, “Clerks II” did the same, and now “Clerks III” picks up the story.
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