# Director Kevin Smith plans 'Clerks' sequel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934 "2004-08-28T10:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/1 "2004-08-28T10:05:54Z")
[Rejoice](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/apmovies_story.asp?category=1402&slug=Film%20Clerks%20Sequel) I wonder if it will revolve around the same characters. If Smith decides to kill off Dante again, I hope he keeps it in the script. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/2 "2004-08-28T10:24:54Z")
\*Clerks \*was one of only two Smith movies I liked (the other was _Chasing Amy_) so I look forward to it. I just wish he’d rename it… the title leaves a bit to be desired. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/3 "2004-08-28T12:06:33Z")
Didn’t he already do this? Animated? On TV? Not that I’m necessarily complaining (although I fail to see anything compelling or interesting in _Clerks_), but still… Oh well. Guess he’s returning to his roots after _Jersey Girl_. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/4 "2004-08-28T12:18:42Z")
Fuckin’ finally. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was originally supposed to be called Clerks 2: Still Clerkin’ and it was going to center around Dante, Randall, Jay and Silent Bob saving the Quick Stop from bankruptcy. But then he said screw it and made Strike Back, which is nice, but the dumbest out of the whole Jersey Trilogy **by far**. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/5 "2004-08-28T13:28:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh well. Guess he’s returning to his roots after Jersey Girl. He needs to return to New Jersey. Living in California has ruined him. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/6 "2004-08-28T17:00:11Z")
Smith has a long history of saying he’s going to make “X” next and “X” either never appears or takes a long time. I believe it when it goes into production. Until then, I’m not going to hold my breath. Whatever movie he makes next, he should keep it very low budget. That’s when he does his best stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/7 "2004-08-28T17:25:11Z")
Fuckity fuck fuck, I can hardly fuckin wait. fuck ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/8 "2004-08-28T17:33:37Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Fuckity fuck fuck, I can hardly fuckin wait. > > fuck Is that from the script? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/9 "2004-08-28T17:34:08Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He needs to return to New Jersey. Living in California has ruined him. _Right…_ _ **Whatever** _. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/10 "2004-08-28T19:32:33Z")
This has been rumored for a while, but I’d see it if it happens. I think killing Dante would’ve been a really crappy end to the movie. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/11 "2004-08-28T20:10:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This has been rumored for a while, but I’d see it if it happens. > > I think killing Dante would’ve been a really crappy end to the movie. But He’s not even supposed to be there today! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/12 "2004-08-28T20:28:45Z")
Yay! 🙂 His movies are about the only ones that I’ve actually bought new (or requested as presents). I’m glad. I thought for some reason he was done making movies entirely. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/13 "2004-08-29T00:15:20Z")
Clerks was an awesome movie. Nobody in it could act, but the plot and dialog ruled. Everything after that has been severely disappointing, especially the totally lamebrain idea to have the only parts of Clerks I didn’t like – Jay and Silent Bob – return in a bunch of pointless movies. He went totally fanboy, which is bad because he’s a fanboy of _himself_. Clerks 2… scares me. It’s like he wants to try to ruin the only good thing he ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-kevin-smith-plans-clerks-sequel/261934/14 "2004-08-29T02:07:25Z")
“My girlfriend sucked 37 cocks!!” “In a row…?” My college friends and I still quote these lines to each other, and it still cracks us up. Well, ordinarily I’d share **Dan Norder’s** pessimism, except that Kevin Smith has gone back to the CLERKS well many times in other media, [with the cancelled animated TV show](http://www.tvtome.com/Clerks), [the ONI comic books](http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/17482374851.1.GIF), their cameo in JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK and [at least one short that I have seen](http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html). Being intermittedly exposed to Randall and Dante on and off the last ten years I suppose I can stand to see a sequel of the movie that brought them to the world. The real questions are: with the shock value gone, will I like them any better in color? Will I like watching 30-somethings who still haven’t gotten their act together as much as I did when I was an aimless twenty-something watching two guys in dead end jobs like me?