Released: September 13, 2022

Directed By:   Kevin Smith

Story By:  Kevin Smith

Stars:    Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Trevor Fehrman, Austin Zajur, Jason Mewes, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Smith and a bunch of other actors.

Plot:  Dante, Elias, and Jay and Silent Bob are enlisted by Randal after a heart attack to make a movie about the convenience store that started it all.

Taglines: They’re too old for this shift.

How did this movie do:
Budget: $5 Million
Box Office: Still in Theaters

• Fred Armisen, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Melissa Benoist, Chris Wood, Anthony Michael Hall, Danny Trejo, Ralph Garman, and Impractical Jokers’ Brian Quinn, Sal Vulcano, James Murray, and Joe Gatto all appear as actors auditioning for Inconvenience. Various customers from the original Clerks reprise their roles for Inconvenience. Other View Askew alumni cameos include John Willyung reprising his role as Cohee Lundin from Chasing Amy, as well as Scott Mosier and Ethan Suplee each reprising their role of Willam Black from both Clerks and Mallrats.

• At the Q&A we attended with Kevin Smith, he laid out the next movies he’d like to do. This is speculation and in no particular order, but Kevin says they will happen.
  • The 430 Movie
  • Moose Jaws
  • Twilight of the Mallrats
  • Tusks
  • Jay & Silent Bob – Something…starring Logan Mewes & Harley Quinn Smith

• Clerks III is the 15^th movie Kevin has directed.
  
  
• Originally, Kevin Smith announced in 2017 that Clerks 3 was off the table after a falling-out with his friend Jeff Anderson who had played Randall Graves in Clerks (1994) and Clerks II (2006). Anderson had read the script but chose not to be involved; Smith canceled the project and made Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) instead. Two weeks before Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was released, however, Smith revealed that he had spent an entire day signing Clerks movie memorabilia together with Anderson and Jason Mewes (Jay). This reunion allowed them to patch things up, and provided him with so much inspiration that he immediately threw away the old script, and started working on a new one with ideas that Anderson was receptive to. According to Smith, it will be “a movie that concludes a saga […] about how you’re never too old to completely change your life […] about how a decades-spanning friendship finally confronts the future.”
  
  
• Began filming on Kevin Smith’s 51st birthday.
  
  
• During the heart attack operation scene, Randal tells Dr. Ladenheim (Amy Sedaris) about the Disney+ show The Mandalorian (2019). On the show, Sedaris plays the character Peli Motto in a recurring role.
  
  
• In the original film, Dante and Randall were both 22 years of age. In this film, they are now both nearing 50.
  
  
• Part of the film’s plot, involving Dante and Randal making a movie at the Quick Stop, was also going to be the plot of a planned Clerks animated movie, based on the short-lived TV series. It was to be titled Clerks Sell Out, which was never produced.
  
  
• Uses the actual Quick Stop Groceries location from the first Clerks film in New Jersey, which is now run by the son of the original owner. Unlike the first film which could only be shot at night (hence why the shutters were jammed), the store was closed for two weeks which allowed for scenes to be shot during the day. Previously, the Quick Stop location in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), was a facade built in New Orleans, which had a much bigger parking lot and different surroundings.
  
  
• The character played by Ethan Suplee auditions using lines said by Suplee’s character in the movie Mallrats.
  
  
• The first of the Clerks films not to be photographed by series regular David Klein.
  
  
• Marc Bernardin plays a character named Lando, previously introduced in Clerks (2000). This will be the character’s live-action debut.
  
  
• At one point, Randal mentions actor Seth Rogen, who previously starred in Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008).
  
  
• The premise of Randall surviving a heart attack and aspiring to do better things in his life echoes that of Kevin Smith’s personal life where a few years prior he nearly died of a heart attack and changed his diet to be completely vegan for better health.
  
  
• Fred Armisen, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ben Affleck make cameo appearances as actors auditioning for Randall’s film. This film marks Gellar’s first theatrical live-action film in 13 years.
  
  
• Randall’s idea to have Dante die in the third act of his movie is taken from the original ending to Clerks where the Quick-stop store is robbed, and Dante is shot and left for dead. When the film began to make the rounds in the independent film scene, Kevin Smith was suggested to take the dark ending out and end it with Randall telling Dante that they’re officially closed for the day.
  
  
• In the Big Bang Theory episode “The Fortification Implementation” Kevin Smith off air asks Kaley Cuoco as Penny to audition for Clerks 3.
  
  
• As seen in the flashback while he’s in the hospital waiting for Randall, the sweater that Dante is wearing when the paramedics bring Becky in on the stretcher (presumably the day she dies) is the same sweater he is wearing the night he has his heart attack and dies.
  
  
• The only “Clerks” film to not end with a song by Soul Asylum.