{"id":26693,"date":"2013-02-18T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26693"},"modified":"2013-02-18T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:06:43","slug":"kevin-smith-looking-at-alternate-ways-to-tell-clerks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/18\/kevin-smith-looking-at-alternate-ways-to-tell-clerks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith Looking At Alternate Ways To Tell CLERKS 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Clerks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19529\" title=\"Clerks2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Clerks2.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Clerks2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Clerks2-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Kevin Smith&#8217;s two <strong>Clerks<\/strong> films are his most personal works, expressions of his own feelings about the direction of his own life at the time he made them. It is only natural, I supppose, that as he is looking to give up directing feature films he is also looking at possible alternate means of continuing the story of counter jockeys Dante and Randall outside of feature films.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Smith had said that he was toying with the idea of presenting <strong>Clerks 3<\/strong> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/29\/will-we-see-clerks-3-on-broadway\/\" target=\"_blank\">limited-run Broadway play<\/a>, but he now states that he has abandoned that idea for either a movel that would be be published online chapter-by-chapter to allow for changes based on reader feedback or possibly as some form of web series. Smith does admit that a feature film is still where the real moneyy is at even though that would also come with creative restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Smith talked about the future of the proposed <strong>Clerks<\/strong> threequel Friday night when appearing on the <em>What\u2019s Trending?<\/em> online show, sponsored by NewTek, the software firm behind the high-end Lightwave 3D animation software.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s comments on the possible future of <strong>Clerks 3<\/strong> starts around the eleven-minute mark. I&#8217;ve transcribed them out after the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEZyvBGDpyI\" height=\"309\" width=\"550\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back when I was trying to figure out how to do <strong>Clerks 3<\/strong> to make it interesting for me, because that\u2019s the thing, it ain\u2019t gonna be interesting for anybody else unless I\u2019m like \u201cOh my god, this is the thing I\u2019m most in love with right now,\u201d I was trying to figure out ways to recreate it and make it interesting rather than just simply doing a movie and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I was thinking of it doing it on Broadway. I was like \u201cYou can do it as a limited run, man, six months\u201d and somebody was like \u201cIf you do a six month Broadway run you will never make money, In fact, you\u2019ll lose people money.\u201d I was like \u201cI didn\u2019t know that,\u201d so that went away.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I talked about was doing it episodically online which would be kind of fun for me, it would be a way of getting away from doing it with a studio. And then I thought about doing it that way but marrying it with something else\u2026 I want to do <strong>Clerks 3<\/strong> as a book first. I want to do episodic chapters so that as I release it people can read the whole thing, see what would it look like. I get to go inside the character\u2019s heads, I get to tell &#8216;Year One&#8217; origin stories. The first chapter is Dante and Randall meeting in kindergarten and stuff like that. All the stuff that I can\u2019t do in a movie.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a stoner so I want to investigate the inner life of every character and I can\u2019t do that in ninety minutes where people are like \u201cYou make some fucking <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> jokes, some dick jokes and then move the fuck on.\u201d So in a book I can get in there and really be artistic with it and have fun with it and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And if I\u2019m doing it in pieces, man, as opposed to just writing one big fat book, I\u2019ll be honest with you, the audience is gonna influence it\u2026 I know a lot of people will be like \u201cThat\u2019s ridiculous, it should be your artistic statement\u201d but my whole thing, my leitmotif, my entire career has been about audience interactivity. Without the audience none of the Clerks stuff that leads to me sitting here with you ever happens.<\/p>\n<p>So for me to kind of write it episodically and to let people read it chapter by chapter and then pipe in and say \u201cOh man, I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s this\u201d it could actually allow me to change direction.<\/p>\n<p>I know there\u2019s a lot of people saying \u201cWhy would you want to, you\u2019re an artist\u201d, well now I\u2019m a new media artist and a new media artist involves the audience. And that\u2019s something that I\u2019ve built for nearly 20 years at this point anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like I\u2019m going to work on something that\u2019s not a film, a film would be the ultimate expression of what <strong>Clerks 3<\/strong> is meant to be, but if I\u2019m working on this kind of book version of it, the inner life of the mind of the characters and what not, I think it will be fun to be influenced by the audience every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p>First I thought about doing it as YouTube, then I thought about doing it as a book\u2026 the money will always be in doing it as a feature. If I want to get real creative, yeah, I\u2019ll break it down and do it online, and yeah, I think it would catch on.<\/p>\n<p>If I was doing it with myself and puppets it\u2019d be one thing but I\u2019ve got to do it with Brian O\u2019Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes\u2026 so everyone gets a say and a lot of them, I\u2019m sure would be like \u201cLet\u2019s do it where the money is, man\u201d which would be doing it as a movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Maybe as a novel or online.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/18\/kevin-smith-looking-at-alternate-ways-to-tell-clerks-3\/\" title=\"Kevin Smith Looking At Alternate Ways To Tell CLERKS 3\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5001,50],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-clerks-3","8":"tag-kevin-smith"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}