Is Kevin Smith serious about Clerks III?

You know, some of us find movies with dick jokes entertaining.

 

What are your thoughts on Huey Lewis and the News though?

 

All figures and numbers aside, I just want to know how you make Dante and Randal interesting again. OK, so now they're in their mid-40s, likely doing the same shit they were doing in the first film. Same thing with Jay & Silent Bob. I liked Clerks 2, but the only one who didn't feel stale in it was Randal. Why do I want 90 more minutes of Brian O'Halloran whining?

 

Part of what I liked about Clerks was what I didn't like about the sequel.

The two guys playing Dante and Randall are both funny, but they're not exactly good actors... In Clerks, I think it's pretty easy to look past that because most of the people seeing it knew the backstory of how the film was made, $25,000, filmed at night, black and white, at the story where Smith used to work etc... I think in the sequel seeing them with real actors was a bit strange, at least for me...

 

I don't know what we'll see with Dante and Randall. I'm guessing, based off how much Smith tweets about his kid, that at least one of them will be married with a kid. Maybe the movie looks at slackers grown up as parents now, Dante with a responsible, corporate-type job, and Randall still the slacker who never grew up trying to drag his friend into another stupid adventure. Not the most original concept, really, but I could see it happening.

 

... which is so fucked out as a movie concept that it kind of defeats the usual Kevin Smith ethics in the first place. I do think he's in a bit of a tough spot when you look at it that way. Watching a movie about people questioning their life and work ethics in their teens and 20s is usually interesting. If those people are still struggling at 40 and 50, it's a tougher sell without taking the movie in a whole other direction. (i.e. Trying to make Clerks 3 into a drama, although honestly, that would make it resonate more like the original, which when I watched as a teenager I thought it was a documentary for a bit.)

 

Isn't that what This is 40 was? I didn't see it.

 

I was going to say, "I don't think anyone has," but then looked on Wiki to check and it's grossed $60M. I'm not sure if that means it has made back its money, but it's not an epic bomb or anything either.

 

I saw it. It had its moments.

 

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Clerks II ended with Dante marrying Becky (Rosario Dawson), who was pregnant, right?


So presumably Clerks 3 will pick them up a decade later with a cutesy 10-ish kid and maybe a younger sibling. Disney movie material.

Or, maybe, pick it up a couple years later as the kid enters the teen years -- does career slacker Dante turn into an uptight establishment dad and try to steer Dante Jr. off his own lackluster life path?

Do they even let Uncle Randal hang around the kids?

 

Kevin Smith is too cynical to make a Disney movie, at least with the Clerks franchise. Dante and Becky will be divorced.

Clerks doesn't work unless his life is a wreck.

 

The only people truly clamoring for a Clerks III are the dudes who played Dante and Randal.