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Film: Clerks 2 (update/trailer pg.3)
http://newsaskew.com/
Director Kevin Smith Plans 'Clerks' Sequel
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith is making another convenience store run.
The writer-director of "Dogma," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back" told the Associated Press on Friday that he has begun
work on a sequel to "Clerks," his homemade indie classic from 1994.
That $27,000 movie, shot at night in a store where Smith worked,
chronicled the adventures of Dante and Randal, two guys who talk about
life, death, sex and movies while working at neighboring stores.
The sequel picks up 10 years later.
"It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise
lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that
same exact situation, but in a place where it's time to actually grow up
and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and
talk about sex," Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office.
"It's: What happened to these dudes?"
A new 10th anniversary DVD of "Clerks" debuts Sept. 7, and Smith
said working on that three-disc set inspired him to write about what
became of those characters.
The sequel — titled "The Passion of the Clerks" — is set to begin
shooting in January. Miramax Films, which turned the original into a
cult-hit after buying it at the Sundance Film Festival (news - web
sites), plans to distribute the follow-up.
"It's funny, it's very raw, insanely foul-mouthed. In many ways
it's the antithesis of 'Jersey Girl,'" Smith said, referring to his
recent PG-13 comedy with Ben Affleck (news) as the widowed father of a
little girl.
Smith is also writing the screenplay for a movie version of "The
Green Hornet," but no longer thinks he will direct it. The "Clerks"
movie has moved to the top of his to-do list.
He said he called Jeff Anderson, who played the combative
video-store worker Randal, and Brian O'Halloran, who was the
besieged-by-strangeness convenience store employee Dante, to run the
idea by them first.
"Jeff was actually very protective of 'Clerks,'" Smith said.
"Jeff was like, 'Are you sure you want to do this? That movie means a
lot to people and do you want to go back?' I thought about it honestly,
and it would seem chicken to not give it a shot just because I'm afraid
of (messing) with the first film."
So far, he said he has gotten only positive responses from the
people who have read the script, so he decided to move forward with it.
Both O'Halloran and Anderson are signed on, and Jason Mewes, will return
as stoner Jay, the "hetero life-mate" of Smith's stoic Silent Bob.
"I'm sure there will be naysayers who say, 'Oh my God, it's an
opportunistic grab at a buck,' but it's not. We're doing it for
nothing," Smith said. "We're going to do it insanely inexpensively. The
budget will be somewhere between 250 grand and $5 million."
The original was shot pre-dawn, and most of the actors worked for
free and then went straight to their day-jobs with little or no sleep.
"This time around we'll afford ourselves the luxury of nice
12-hour days," Smith said. "And people can get paid."
http://newsaskew.com/
Director Kevin Smith Plans 'Clerks' Sequel
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith is making another convenience store run.
The writer-director of "Dogma," "Chasing Amy" and "Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back" told the Associated Press on Friday that he has begun
work on a sequel to "Clerks," his homemade indie classic from 1994.
That $27,000 movie, shot at night in a store where Smith worked,
chronicled the adventures of Dante and Randal, two guys who talk about
life, death, sex and movies while working at neighboring stores.
The sequel picks up 10 years later.
"It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise
lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that
same exact situation, but in a place where it's time to actually grow up
and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and
talk about sex," Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office.
"It's: What happened to these dudes?"
A new 10th anniversary DVD of "Clerks" debuts Sept. 7, and Smith
said working on that three-disc set inspired him to write about what
became of those characters.
The sequel — titled "The Passion of the Clerks" — is set to begin
shooting in January. Miramax Films, which turned the original into a
cult-hit after buying it at the Sundance Film Festival (news - web
sites), plans to distribute the follow-up.
"It's funny, it's very raw, insanely foul-mouthed. In many ways
it's the antithesis of 'Jersey Girl,'" Smith said, referring to his
recent PG-13 comedy with Ben Affleck (news) as the widowed father of a
little girl.
Smith is also writing the screenplay for a movie version of "The
Green Hornet," but no longer thinks he will direct it. The "Clerks"
movie has moved to the top of his to-do list.
He said he called Jeff Anderson, who played the combative
video-store worker Randal, and Brian O'Halloran, who was the
besieged-by-strangeness convenience store employee Dante, to run the
idea by them first.
"Jeff was actually very protective of 'Clerks,'" Smith said.
"Jeff was like, 'Are you sure you want to do this? That movie means a
lot to people and do you want to go back?' I thought about it honestly,
and it would seem chicken to not give it a shot just because I'm afraid
of (messing) with the first film."
So far, he said he has gotten only positive responses from the
people who have read the script, so he decided to move forward with it.
Both O'Halloran and Anderson are signed on, and Jason Mewes, will return
as stoner Jay, the "hetero life-mate" of Smith's stoic Silent Bob.
"I'm sure there will be naysayers who say, 'Oh my God, it's an
opportunistic grab at a buck,' but it's not. We're doing it for
nothing," Smith said. "We're going to do it insanely inexpensively. The
budget will be somewhere between 250 grand and $5 million."
The original was shot pre-dawn, and most of the actors worked for
free and then went straight to their day-jobs with little or no sleep.
"This time around we'll afford ourselves the luxury of nice
12-hour days," Smith said. "And people can get paid."