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Kevin Smith Reveals That He's Finished Writing The Mallrats 2 Script

Kevin Smith Reveals That He's Finished Writing The Mallrats 2 Script

It's called 'Twilight of the Mallrats'

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Kevin Smith has revealed that he's been using his time wisely during the coronavirus lockdown and has actually finished writing the script for Mallrats 2.

If you want a quick refresher course on the original film, have a look at the trailer here.

Yep, Silent Bob has been busy at home battering through the story for the follow-up to his 1995 cult favourite, and it's even got a name - Twilight of the Mallrats.

The writer, actor, and director who brought us Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back confirmed that the script is done in a lengthy Instagram post, writing: "Thanks in part to the #Quarantine, I finally finished a funny first draft of 'TWILIGHT OF THE MALLRATS'!"

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He even went as far as to explain the premise behind the movie.

Smith explained: "25 years after the original, Brodie Bruce will be back for an unnecessary sequel set against the Mallpocalypse!

"Rene, Willam, Gwen, Brandy, T.S., Trish, Mr. Svenning, LaFours and the rebooted @jayandsilentbob are the returning 'Rats in an Askewniverse imagining about what happens when the sidewalk sales end, and 'happily ever after' is easier to say than live!

"The #jayandsilentbob stuff is some of my favorite conceptual comedy I've ever written but the whole script is silly, sentimental and sweet. And at 98 pages, the story moves like a brakeless bullet train!"

Well, at least he's confident in his own work. That's a nice thing, and pretty rare to see.

Judging from the brief synopsis, that means we're likely to see stars from the original such as Shannon Doherty, Jason lee, Ethan Suplee, Claire Forlani, Joey Lauren Adams, Renee Humphrey, Jeremy London, Sven-Ole Thorson and- of course - Jason Mewes.

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Smith admitted that it's probably going to be 'months before we can actually shoot it', but he's got plenty to be going on with until then.

He added: "This script is done, it's on to a new draft of 'Moose Jaws' and then the first draft of the new version of 'Clerks 3!'"

If you wanted to know a bit more about what the plans are for the film, Smith recorded an entire episode of his podcast - handily titled 'Silent Bob Speaks' - to discuss Twilight of the Mallrats.

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Smith was recently in the news for revealing that the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein refused to pay him any royalties from his critically-acclaimed 1994 film Clerks.

The low-budget black and white film grossed $3.2m at the box office, but has since gone on to become a cult hit.

He told Variety: "I'm still out money. It took seven years for us to see any profit from that movie. For seven years, they were like: 'Nope, the movie is still not in profit'. And we were like, 'How?'."

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Topics: TV and Film, US Entertainment