Kevin Smith Confirms Mallrats Sequel in the Works

UPDATE: Kevin Smith has confirmedthat hisMallrats sequel will be calledMallBrats.Twentyyears in the making. 113 pages fulla old friends & new jokes. This is for you, Jim. Wish you were here, tweeted Smith, referencing Mallratsproducer James Jacks who died in 2014.

Twenty years after Kevin Smithreleased his now-cult comedy Mallrats, the director has confirmed that he is currently working on the sequels script. Lately Ive been doing this thing where Im like, Do you want to do whats good for your career, or do you just want to have fun? Smith said. Nobodys clamoring for a Mallrats sequel, but I would love to make one. Its been like 20 years.

Smith already targets May 2016 as the start date for Mallrats 2. Its half a script right now, and were pulling our loot together, Smith told Tuscons KFMA (via The Hollywood Reporter). I had a cool idea and a bunch of investors that were like, Do it, so here we are.

Smith did not share any other information about the film or whether the 1995 comedys cast and characters Jason Lees stinkpalm-giving Brodie, Jeremy Londons T.S., Ben Afflecks antagonistic Shannon and, of course, Jay and Silent Bob would also return to loiter around the mall two decades later.

Although the Mallrats sequel is already half-written, itll need to get in the long queue of other Smiths in-development projects. The director will film Clerks III this May, then his long-gestating hockey movie Hit Somebody is scheduled to go into production from September to Christmas Day.

In February 2016, Smith hopes to begin work on Moose Jaws, a horror film he once described as Jaws with a moose, which will be followed by Anti-Claus, Smith wrote on his Facebook page. But after that? I smell a rat, Smith said, referring to Mallrats 2.