Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Backstar Jason Mewes says the script for Kevin Smith ’s planned reboot with himself and Smith repeat their function is " awing " and " passing clever . " Smith’sJay and Silent Bob Rebootis countersink tobegin spud this dip , Smith himself late break . The lapidator duo Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in Smith ’s debut featureClerks , the scrappy , low - budget indie about the loss - on at a New Jersey convenience store and have made appearance in many of Smith ’s subsequent films . Jay and Silent Bob were featured prominently in Smith’sChasing Amy , where it was revealed that the impenitent potheads ' liveliness had inspired a superhero comic book , Bluntman and Chronic .
In the duo ’s 2001 standaloneJay and Silent Bob Strike Back , the form of address character study that Hollywood was plan to make a movie about their mirthful playscript alter egos and they went on a road trip to stop it from happening . Jay and Silent Bob Rebootwill , in true reboot fashion , reprocess the same story ; this time around , Hollywood is doing the unthinkable by making a pic that turns Bluntman and Chronic into adversaries , a clear denotation to Warner Bros. ' much - malignedBatman v Superman : Dawn of JusticestarringBatman fanatic Smith ’s old friend Ben Affleck .
Speaking toComicBook , Jason Mewes gave some details about theJay and Silent Bob Rebootscript , and was predictably gushing about what his pal Kevin Smith has whipped up :
“ I ’ve register the hand , and it ’s amazing and it ’s extremely clever . It ’s call Jay & Silent Bob Reboot , and it ’s Jay and Bob making sport of reboots . It ’s funny — a couple of the great unwashed have asked me , ‘ are you guys even playing the type if it ’s a reboot ? ’ It ’s not really a reboot , Kevin called it Jay & Silent Bob Reboot , and it ’s us making fun of reboots , but the script ’s awe-inspiring . It ’s very funny . ”
Mewes was hesitating to give many particular about the project , but did say Smith is trying to get back many of the actors who appear inJay and Silent Bob Strike Back . The 2001 original sport appearance by a multitude of large - name stars , include Mark Hamill in the unforgettable purpose of Cocknocker the supervillain . Ben Affleck also made an show in the film , reprising hisChasing Amyrole of Holden McNeil , one of the creators ofBluntman and Chronic .
Considering Affleck ’s primal role in the original Jay and Silent Bob , and in all of Smith ’s now - retire View Askewniverse , one has to assume Smith is endeavoring to get Affleck onboard forJay and Silent Bob Reboot . But would Affleck need to participate in a film that is intelligibly go under to make fun of his own movieBatman v Superman ? That ’s the big query .
For many Smith fans , the outrageous , Hollywood - skewering hijinks ofJay and Silent Bob Strike Backmarked the pinnacle of the film maker ’s vocation . In recent geezerhood , Smith has branched out to become a ubiquitous podcast front and observer on the Hollywood scene , but his own moving-picture show have run into with largely negative reception . Smith has peach about revisiting several of his early project , teasingClerksandMallratssequels before revealingJay and Silent Bob Reboot . Smith is also working on a revulsion movie calledKillroy Was Here , the jump of a novel anthology .
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