Kevin Smith spent the first day of 2019 starting “pre-pre-production” on a new (and long-awaited) Jay And Silent Bob movie. He had reportedly planned to start shooting the project back in 2018, but he almost died, so that may have kinda got in the way of things.
Healthy and happy in 2019, Smith has declared it “the year of the Reboot”…
The director had posted a Tweet wishing everyone a happy new year earlier in the day wearing a familiar overcoat…
Smith revealed the plot of the upcoming film at SDCC last summer:
“If you remember Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, it was a movie in which Jay and Silent Bob found out Hollywood was making a movie about them so they went cross country to Hollywood to stop that from happening. Jay And Silent Bob Reboot is completely f—ing different. In Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, Jay and Silent Bob find out that Hollywood is making a reboot of that old movie that they had made about them, and they have to go cross the country to Hollywood to stop it all over again. it’s literally the same f—ing movie all over again. It’s a movie that makes fun of sequels and remakes and reboots while being all three at the same time.”
This will be the seventh live-action film of Smith’s to feature the iconic characters played by himself and Jason Mewes, who have also gone on to have their own comics, TV series and merch. They first appeared together in his low-budget 1994 comedy, Clerks, and the rest has been history. We last saw Jay And Silent Bob in 2006’s Clerks 2.
Twelve-odd years is a long time to have been without these two – we’ve had a whole MCU since then!
More as it happens.