As much as he’s slimmed down, Kevin Smith’s belly is still apparently out there enough for more navel-gazing.
Speaking to The Wrap, Smith has revealed that his recently re-announced sequel to Clerks—you know, that movie about clerks set in the convenience store where Kevin Smith worked as a clerk—will somehow be even more of a Smith twofer than a hockey jersey and some jean shorts. Turns out, Clerks 3 will be both about the making of Clerks AND about having a heart attack that changes your lifestyle!
“Randal has a heart attack, decides that he came so close to death, and his life has meant nothing, there’s nobody to memorialize him, he has no family or anything like that,” Smith said. “And in the recovery, while under fentanyl, he comes to the conclusion at mid-life, having almost died, having worked in a movie store his whole life and watched other people’s movies, he tells Dante, ‘I think we need to make a movie.’ So Dante and Randal make Clerks. That’s the story of Clerks 3.”
The writer-director also noted that Dante and Randal will be forced to shoot their in-film movie in black and white. Multiple features have been shot on consumer mobile phones at this point, but sure, we’ll just pretend that nothing has changed in a quarter century, even if it doesn’t make a lick of sense. What’s important is that the story of Kevin Smith is endlessly told, a Silent Bobowulf to pass on from generation to generation that will increasingly not understand why Clerks 3 involves black and white film-making.
