Kevin Smith Is Still Trying To Make Mallrats 2 Happen

Kevin Smith Is Still Trying To Make ‘Mallrats 2’ Happen

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 2, 2020 5:00 pm EST

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In the Instagram post above, Kevin Smith offers up a positive message about how 2019 was one of the best years of his life, and how 2020 is going to be hard to measure up to what he accomplished last year. But he’s going to try, gosh darn it! The filmmaker is once again going to attempt to get a Mallrats sequel going with a new script called Twlight of the Mallrats. He’s also working on a Clerks III script, and he isn’t sure which of the two he’ll make first.

Of course, this isn’t exactly new. Smith has been teasing a potential Mallrats sequel since 2015. At the time, he said he planned to start filming in 2016. Smith even laid out an entire storyline:

Smith later revealed the title of his script was Mallbrats, promising “113 pages fulla old friends, new jokes and a bloody battle with Stan Lee.”

Eventually, this entire idea morphed into a potential TV series. But Smith failed to find a buyer for the idea, reporting in 2017 that he “pitched said sequel series to 6 different networks only to find no takers thus far.” Now it sounds like he’s going back to the drawing board and putting together a whole new script, which means that entire Die Hard idea is probably out the window.