{"id":27603,"date":"2013-04-05T18:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=27603"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:50:57","slug":"kevin-smith-talks-clerks-iii-writing-process-and-lets-slip-a-possible-story-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/05\/kevin-smith-talks-clerks-iii-writing-process-and-lets-slip-a-possible-story-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith Talks CLERKS III Writing Process And Let&#8217;s Slip A Possible Story Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Clerks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Clerks-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Clerks\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27611\" \/><\/a>Kevin Smith is currently deep in the writing the first draft screenplay for <strong>Clerks III<\/strong>, but he took a little time out earlier this weeky to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/1bish9\/iama_google_glass_explorer_who_is_thinking_of\/c9710ij\">Reddit AMA<\/a> to talk about his progress on the project. And in doing so, he let slip a little something interesting that I think points to what the story that he is currently developing may be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Status of CLERKS III is this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on page 95. That means there&#8217;s about 25 pages left to go. I&#8217;m in love with it and don&#8217;t want it to end, but the end is near regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Dante. Randal. Jay. Silent Bob. They all return, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Elias. Becky. They&#8217;re back as well.<\/p>\n<p>So is Veronica.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be Dante&#8217;s ex-girlfriend Veronica, played in the first <strong>Clerks<\/strong> film by Marilyn Ghigliotti and not seen since.<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed that the plot of the third movie would pick up from the ending of <strong>Clerks II<\/strong> and explore how Dante (Brian O&#8217;Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson)&#8217;s friendship is tested by their mutual ownership of the Quick Stop and the fact that Dante is now a father. But the addition of Veronica into the mix raises some interesting plot possibilities. Even at the best of times, Dante is a bit indecisive and tossing an old girlfriend into the mix is certainly not going to be helping things.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the film is far from being a fait accompli. Obviously the participation of stars O&#8217;Halloran and Anderson are key, and Smith stated that &#8220;both have said &#8216;Hit me with a script and we&#8217;ll see&#8230;&#8217;.&#8221; And I am sure that once he finishes the script and fire it off to them, he&#8217;ll be the first to tell us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A character returning from the first CLERKS could lead to some complications.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/05\/kevin-smith-talks-clerks-iii-writing-process-and-lets-slip-a-possible-story-point\/\" title=\"Kevin Smith Talks CLERKS III Writing Process And Let&#8217;s Slip A Possible Story Point\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27611,"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":[2269,50],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-clerks-iii","9":"tag-kevin-smith"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603","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=27603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27603"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}