An official first-look photo for Clerks 3 reveals the employees of Quick Stop back behind the counter, even though they're likely not even supposed to be there today.
Vanity Fair shared the image of the reassembled cast from the original Clerks movie and its 2006 sequel, offering fans a fresh look at Elias (Trevor Fehrman), Dante (Brian O'Halloran), Becky (Rosario Dawson), and Randal (Jeff Anderson), lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in their respective work uniforms at the Quick Stop convenience store.
Writer-director Kevin Smith previously revealed that the story of the threequel would, at least in part, be inspired by his own life experiences, with Randal emerging as the main character after suffering a life-threatening heart attack in the movie — similar to the near-fatal heart attack that Smith survived in real life back in 2018.
"The film is predicated on the idea that Randal survives a heart attack, a massive heart attack, quite like I did, and then winds up, you know, deciding that he's wasted his life," Smith told Vanity Fair of the Clerks 3 plot. "But before he dies he wants to memorialize himself. He wants to make a movie. So our boys essentially wind up making Clerks."
Clerks 3 will be shot in color, with the exception of the home movie that Randal sets out to make. Smith revealed that Randal's movie is called Inconvenience and that it will reshoot key moments from 1994's Clerks in black-and-white, replicating the style of the franchise's first title while differentiating the movie-within-a-movie scenes from the rest of the film.
The filmmaker also made a concerted effort to not hide the fact that the cast members have aged along with their characters. "It's definitely a movie about people who try to be young while being old," Smith said. "All of us are in our late 40s, if not 50s… and you'll see the progression. We don't hide the age. We don't Hollywood it up. We all look as old as we look."
Clerks 3 is currently shooting in New Jersey, but the film has yet to receive a release date. Jason Mewes and Smith will be reprising their roles as Jay and Silent Bob in the new installment following the pothead pair's last cross-country mission together in 2019's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which IGN referred to as "a love letter to his View Askewniverse."
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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Vanity Fair shared the image of the reassembled cast from the original Clerks movie and its 2006 sequel, offering fans a fresh look at Elias (Trevor Fehrman), Dante (Brian O'Halloran), Becky (Rosario Dawson), and Randal (Jeff Anderson), lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in their respective work uniforms at the Quick Stop convenience store.
Writer-director Kevin Smith previously revealed that the story of the threequel would, at least in part, be inspired by his own life experiences, with Randal emerging as the main character after suffering a life-threatening heart attack in the movie — similar to the near-fatal heart attack that Smith survived in real life back in 2018.
"The film is predicated on the idea that Randal survives a heart attack, a massive heart attack, quite like I did, and then winds up, you know, deciding that he's wasted his life," Smith told Vanity Fair of the Clerks 3 plot. "But before he dies he wants to memorialize himself. He wants to make a movie. So our boys essentially wind up making Clerks."
Clerks 3 will be shot in color, with the exception of the home movie that Randal sets out to make. Smith revealed that Randal's movie is called Inconvenience and that it will reshoot key moments from 1994's Clerks in black-and-white, replicating the style of the franchise's first title while differentiating the movie-within-a-movie scenes from the rest of the film.
The filmmaker also made a concerted effort to not hide the fact that the cast members have aged along with their characters. "It's definitely a movie about people who try to be young while being old," Smith said. "All of us are in our late 40s, if not 50s… and you'll see the progression. We don't hide the age. We don't Hollywood it up. We all look as old as we look."
Clerks 3 is currently shooting in New Jersey, but the film has yet to receive a release date. Jason Mewes and Smith will be reprising their roles as Jay and Silent Bob in the new installment following the pothead pair's last cross-country mission together in 2019's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which IGN referred to as "a love letter to his View Askewniverse."
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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