Film: Clerks 2 (merged super-de-duper thread!)

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."

and my thoughts: on first hearing it, it seems bad. it seems, like smith says, exactly like an "opportunistic grab at a buck", but having read his comments i'm hoping it won't be so terrible.

and if it's the antithesis of jersey girl that's gotta be good

it should be decent, as I am a massive Clerks fan.

but the clerks cartoon was bloody crap - so who knows.

here comes Randal, he's a berzerker!

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^^^ lol. i like the cartoons but

really keystroke? I heard the Clerks cartoons were better than the film. I'm not too sure if I'll even pay the money to see this.... there was a time for everyone to go through their Clerks/Mallrats phase but for me it's past.

ugh i can just see it now, tons of self depricating jokes about capitalizing on a passed success by "going back to the well".

lol 1234 what did you read in that article that made you think this isnt going to be a horrible film? this sounds like an awful idea, im w/ randall man

*wobbles head and snaps fingers while walking out the door*

i just have faith (perhaps misplaced) in smith - he is/always has been a brilliant writer, so i don't see any reason to think that he can't pull an enjoyable film out of this. i'm not expecting a world beater, i'm just hoping for some laughs

afaik, clerks 2 was called "Hardly Clerkin" and was morphed into J&SBSB.

Is fart-ridden comedies & romance/comedies all KS can do?

pretty much, but done with style.

Anyone notice how the dialog in Clerks had no breaks? Every scene was like 1 long sentence. Apart from that, awesome movie.

the dialog in clerks is amazing, considering it was all done in one night - the actors did a tremendous job of remembering all the lines like that.

I like and own clerks and chasing amy. Dogma was okay, but ever since J&SBSB, I will never spend another cent on Kevin Smith (unless he pulls a homer simpson).

yes, but that's not so bad; at least he does them well. chasing amy's one of the most intelligent relationship movies i've ever seen

well I bought the original australian release of Clerks and Chasing Amy and then ALSO bought the Criterion collection release of both films in a boxset... because it included deleted scenes and commentary.

I'm not buying a god damn third clerks dvd, I'm gonna pirate the bugger...

i think clerks is a fabulous film and in my mind there is no doubt that the restrictions placed on it's production, financial and otherwise, definitely helped fuel the creativity that saw it emerge as modern day cult classic.

although i have been entertained by smith's post clerks efforts, i always feel somewhat letdown by the quality of these productions, especially in comparison to clerks despite the huge budgets that smith now has access to.

the success of smith's highly praised first feature length film gives weight to the theory that an artist must suffer in order to create great works of art. it will be interesting to see whether a limited budget will produce good results this time around.

I was mostly shot at night, not in one night.

blah. no the clerks cartoons did not measure up to the movie, imo. yet i still own and watch the dvd.

i dont know where i fall in this... i mean great clerks awesome another one! ya! i live 10 miles form the orginal and so on, it seems exciting and everything...
yet my faith in smith has dwindled lately and how could it compare? clecks has the endearing quality of low budget real life basis non actors and everything else going for it... and now? ten years later, more money, more roles under the belts of dante and all... will there still be the draw that held us in to the orginal?