Snoochie boochies, fellow 30-year-olds. Kevin Smith has finally, at long damn hell ass last, confirmed the much-vaunted Jay & Silent Bob reboot is a go, thanks to a social media post earlier this morning.
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Despite the fact the project was officially announced way back in 2017 (christ alive what a sentence), not much has been said of the reboot in the months since, largely due to Smith spending the majority of 2018 nearly dying from a gargantuan heart attack and dropping a truly absurd amount of weight as part of his recovery.
This morning, however, Smith posted the first photo from “pre-pre-production” on the movie, meaning at the very least that things are finally moving forward in 2019.
Spent the first day of 2019 having a #JayAndSilentBobReboot pre-pre-production meeting at our holiday-roomy @WeWork office! @JayMewes took this pic of me and @JordanMonsanto to both mark the moment and to document that we were the only dopes in Hollywood working on the holiday. pic.twitter.com/xTNrpN6OF6
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) January 2, 2019
Jordan Monsato, also pictured there, is a frequent producer of Smith’s who worked on Tusk, Yoga Hosers, and a swathe of other View Askew productions. She also just-so-happens to be Jason Mewes‘ wife. So there’s that.
The long-awaited sequel to 2001’s Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back seems poised to take aim at Hollywood’s ready willingness to produce reboots, remakes, and sequels, while simultaneously embracing all three tropes. Smith has described the new movie in past interviews as being “literally the same fucking movie all over again.”
In Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Jay and Silent Bob find out that Hollywood is making a reboot of that old movie that they had made about them, and they have to go across the country to Hollywood to stop it all over again. it’s literally the same fucking movie all over again. It’s a movie that makes fun of sequels and remakes and reboots while being all three at the same time.
Whatever the thing winds up being, as long as we get returns from Mark Hamill as the original Cocknocker and Seann William Scott dusting off the worst wig in the Miramax wardrobe department again, then everything’s gonna be fine.
Hell yeah.
