Kevin Smith Working on New Jay and Silent Bob Movie
Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse isn’t going anywhere. In a recent exclusive interview with PopCulture.com, Smith revealed that he’s currently “writing another Jay and Silent Bob movie.” Apparently, this is the result of a lost bet with Jason Mewes, who plays the Jay to Smith’s Silent Bob. The duo last appeared in 2022’s Clerks III, while Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was the last time they were the leads in one of Smith’s films. This is the first mention of a new movie set in the View Askewniverse, the name of the fictional world inhabited by Jay and Silent Bob and the various characters (mostly from New Jersey) they encounter since the Mallrats sequel, which sounds like it’ll never happen.
Well… okay. I love the View Askewniverse, and I’m open to more movies set in that world, but the newer ones are not as good as the classics. They’re certainly not bad (and masterpieces compared to some of Smith’s truly awful films), but the returns are diminishing, and as much as I’d love to see a lot of the characters again, I don’t want them to reach a point where they get bad. I want to believe Smith has enough restraint that he wouldn’t let it get to that point, but I’m not sure about that. And after Reboot, I wonder where he can take Jay and Silent Bob in the future; he used to joke about getting desperate and making Jay and Silent Bob in Space, but it may come to that eventually. At this point, I’m more interested in Smith trying new things, like The 4:30 Movie. But there’s another part of me that’s happy he never entirely closes the book on the Askewniverse, as if these characters continue to live their lives in his head, and every so often, he makes one of their adventures into a movie. I hope for the best, but at a certain point, I think the book does need to be closed for good, at least on the screen.
