Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (October 15, 2019)

[MenacingMonk]

Kevin Smith has confirmed on Twitter that pre-production on the long-awaited Jay and Silent Bob reboot has begun.

Smith announced the project in 2017 and later confirmed on Facebook that the film based on the characters he created (one of whom he portrayed alongside actor Jason Mewes) would be “a movie within a movie,” with references parodying popular superhero films.

Now, Smith has further elaborated on the project with a photo including producer Jordan Monsanto, with whom he spent the beginning of 2019 “having a #JayAndSilentBobReboot pre-pre-production meeting.” The plot of the movie revolves around Jay and Silent Bob leaving New Jersey to stop a reboot of the Bluntman and Chronic movie titled Bluntman v Chronic.

Mewes and Smith first portrayed the foul-mouthed, hostile Jay and his quiet-yet-intellectual partner in crime Silent Bob in Smith’s directorial debut, Clerks. The characters would make appearances in most of Smith’s films, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks II. They also appeared as the characters in Clerks: The Animated Series and Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie.

When plans for the highly-anticipated Clerks III fell through, Smith decided to focus on the reboot movie, which appears to be a sequel to the 2001 film and the title of which is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the recent trend of reboots in the superhero genre over the last decade or so.

Smith suffered a near fatal heart attack in February, after which he has lost a staggering 51 pounds. He has remained busy, working on a variety of projects including an upcoming Hit Girl series that will be released in February.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Long awaited I guess mewes is clean now

 

[BXKingPin82]

i always laugh thinking to myself that part when American Pie shorty asked Jay,
"Whats a trouser snake???"



she looked legit interested about that shyt.

 

[MenacingMonk]

i always laugh thinking to myself that part when American Pie shorty asked Jay,
"Whats a trouser snake???"



she looked legit interested about that shyt.

Shannon Elizabeth

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Hell to the muthafukkin yeah.

Kevin Smith lowkey had his own cinematic universe going in the 90's/2000's.

High school

Spoiler

 

[morris]

fukk tha police

fukk, fukk, fukk da police

This was one of my favorite comedy movies of all time. Like the dumb ones. Like Not Another Teen Movie.
If this is like Clerks 2 meaning it's better than the original I will be very pleasantly surprised.

I wonder how many cameos this movie will have? The first one had damn near all of Hollywood in it

 

[steadyrighteous]

Never seen anything by Kevin Smith outside of Clerks II and I only watched it for Rosario Dawson.

Not even Clerks.

 

[MartyMcFly]

fukk tha police

fukk, fukk, fukk da police

This was one of my favorite comedy movies of all time. Like the dumb ones. Like Not Another Teen Movie.
If this is like Clerks 2 meaning it's better than the original I will be very pleasantly surprised.

I wonder how many cameos this movie will have? The first one had damn near all of Hollywood in it

Prob not as much. Kev has been trying to get this off the ground for years and he doesn’t have as many connects in Hollywood as he used to. He tried to get mallrats 2 off the ground as a movie. Didn’t happen. Then as a tv show. Didn’t happen.

And he’s been talking about this movie for about 2 or 3 years and trying to make it happen. So who knows man.

 

[Robbie3000]

LeBron should just stick to podcasting and directing TV superhero shows.

 

[Devilinurear]

Prob not as much. Kev has been trying to get this off the ground for years and he doesn’t have as many connects in Hollywood as he used to. He tried to get mallrats 2 off the ground as a movie. Didn’t happen. Then as a tv show. Didn’t happen.

And he’s been talking about this movie for about 2 or 3 years and trying to make it happen. So who knows man.

Wasn't he friends with Harvey?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Wasn't he friends with Harvey?

Yup. Harvey gave him his break

 

[KevCo]

Prob not as much. Kev has been trying to get this off the ground for years and he doesn’t have as many connects in Hollywood as he used to. He tried to get mallrats 2 off the ground as a movie. Didn’t happen. Then as a tv show. Didn’t happen.

And he’s been talking about this movie for about 2 or 3 years and trying to make it happen. So who knows man.

Before this was announced he was trying to get clerks 3 off the ground but said “one of the guys” wasnt interested, so its becoming a comic book and he focused on this instead...who would you guess is the person that didnt want to do Clerks 3? Im guessing Dante...who cant act for shyt anyways lol

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Prob not as much. Kev has been trying to get this off the ground for years and he doesn’t have as many connects in Hollywood as he used to. He tried to get mallrats 2 off the ground as a movie. Didn’t happen. Then as a tv show. Didn’t happen.

And he’s been talking about this movie for about 2 or 3 years and trying to make it happen. So who knows man.

Heard that it got sorted out for sure because he sent Mewes to negotiate with the money people this time, and he got them everything they needed

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

Before this was announced he was trying to get clerks 3 off the ground but said “one of the guys” wasnt interested, so its becoming a comic book and he focused on this instead...who would you guess is the person that didnt want to do Clerks 3? Im guessing Dante...who cant act for shyt anyways lol

He confirmed it was Jeff Anderson/Randal awhile back



guess I'm in the minority but I'm not really trying to see any of these old mfs reprising roles from 25 years ago. They pushing 50 now

Clerks 2 was wack to me too