The director described the earlier version of his screenplay as “so far-flung from Clerks.”
It is no secret (stash) thatKevin Smithhas been trying to getClerks IIIoff the ground for a while.
“It opened on the evening of Hurricane Sandy,” Smith toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
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“Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) were locked in a jail… And [the guys] are like, ‘What’s coming?’
‘They’re calling it Sandy.’
“A village sprouts up in the parking lot of the movie theater,” said Smith.
It was a movie about dealing with grief.”
The director set about completely overhauling the script forClerks IIIafter suffering a heart attack in February 2018.
“So Randal, the video-store guy, has a massive heart attack.
Randal and Dante essentially make their own version ofClerks, a black-and-white movie calledInconvenience.
It’s incredibly meta.
you could put that on the poster!”
“That movie was a hardcore tear-jerker, it was very very dark,” said the director.
“[But] all the funny stuff that could be salvaged to the new version ported right over.
Clerks IIIwill play in select cinemas Sept. 13-18.
Smith will tour with the filmin select markets in September and October.
Watch the trailer forClerks IIIbelow.
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