![]() ![]() Smith also wore the same wardrobe within the two films. A couple of actors portray the same characters, with Kevin Smith credited as Silent Bob. ![]() Drawing Flies: Much of the cast of Mallrats featured in a simultaneous View Askew Productions film titled, Drawing Flies.Rob Weston, Jason Mewes, Dominic Burns & Mickey Gooch Jr. Kevin Smith, Matt Gissing, Scott Mosier & Malcolm IngramĬathy Konrad, Kevin Williamson & Marianne Maddalena In January 2020, Smith announced that development on Mallrats 2 has started up again, under a new title Twilight of the Mallrats. In April 2015, Smith announced that Mallrats 2 would be his next film, instead of Clerks III as originally intended, and would begin production the following year. On March 12, 2015, Kevin Smith confirmed that Mallrats 2 was being written and was slated to begin shooting in May 2016. The film was released on September 13, 2022, by Lionsgate and Fathom Events. Principal photography began on August 2, 2021, in Red Bank, New Jersey. The plot was initially conceived for a film adaptation of Clerks: The Animated Series titled Clerks: Sell Out. The new Clerks III would follow Dante and Randal, after surviving a heart attack, making a movie at the store. The filmmaker confirmed that many of the creatives from the previous films would return, including Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran. īy September 2019, Smith announced that he had scrapped the previous draft, and had begun working a whole new script for the project. By February 2017, he announced via his social media page that development had stopped, and the film would not be made, when Jeff Anderson dropped out of the project. Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie!įollowing the release of Clerks II, Smith reported that, for several years after, a script was finished but production was delayed in favor of other projects. ![]() Chasing Amy also takes place partly in New York City, while Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot involve road trips. The View Askewniverse is centered on the towns of Leonardo, Highlands, and Red Bank, all located in Monmouth County, central New Jersey. Since then, the main canon has consisted of nine feature films, in addition to several short films, comic books, and a short-lived animated TV series. Smith's recurring characters, settings, and motifs first appeared in his debut film, Clerks. Smith often casts the same actors for multiple characters in the universe, sometimes even in the same film Smith himself portrays the character of Silent Bob. The characters Jay and Silent Bob appear in almost all the View Askewniverse media, and characters from one story often reappear or are referred to in others. The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions. Overall, it's not required reading - only if you really need to know how Jay and Bob got from one movie to the next.Fictional universe and media franchise by Kevin Smith View Askewniverse Smith did manage to show a lot of attention into even the smallest detail like costume changes - explaining how Jay and Bob managed to acquire different clothing from Chasing Amy to Dogma. The odd character reference pops up which I really enjoyed. That's one thing I love about his movies, they all bleed together without acknowledging themselves as a "saga" of sorts. I did however, enjoy the subtle nods to the View Askewniverse as a whole. The dialogue was fine - your standard Smith stuff. Maybe it was the artwork? I wasn't crazy about it. The movie is one of my favorites so I can't say why I really wasn't all that into this graphic novel. I guess the story was so well received, or Smith loved it so much, he took the escapades with the escaped monkey and turned it into Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Along the way, they get mixed up with an escaped monkey. The hapless duo were in search of Shermer, Illinois - the fictional town in John Hughes 1980s teen movies. ![]() If you've seen Dogma, Jay describes basically what happened during a scene in a diner. The story builds a bridge between the end of Chasing Amy and the beginning of Dogma explaining what happened to Jay & Silent Bob. Unfortunately, this really didn't live up to my expectations. Anyway, normally, this lends me to have a ridiculous bias towards anything he creates. Did I mention I'm attending An Evening With Kevin Smith on November 7th in Halifax? No? Well, I just did. ![]()
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