Kevin Smith’s Jay & Silent Bob Sequel Confirms Filming Start Window

25 years later, Jay and Silent Bob are still up to their usual stoner hijinks, and they may make it back onto the big screen soon.

Introduced in director Kevin Smith’s Clerks, the comedy duo serve as the alter egos of Smith and lifelong friend Jason Mewes. As his name suggests, Silent Bob is the quieter, wiser half of the friendship, while Jay is the loudmouth wildcard. They’ve served as background characters, leading men, and even prophets throughout Smith’s View Askewniverse movies.

Jay and Silent Bob first went solo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in 2001 and later replayed the hits in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot in 2019. Both of which are stoner road trip films full of meta humor and cameos. The duo’s most recent appearance was in 2022’s Clerks III, which saw them running a dispensary.

According to a Collider interview with Mewes, their next film has already found its shooting location in Canada. “To be honest, I know that it’s not in the city of Vancouver because they were telling me when they were looking for housing, they were like, ‘Oh, we’re going to put you out closer to where we’re going to be filming,”‘ Mewes explained. “I wish I could remember the name of the city or, like, surrounding, I don’t know what they call it. I don’t know if it’s a city or whatever it is. I’m used to towns where I grew up, so I know that it’s like 30 or 40 minutes outside of the city in some beautiful area.“

Because Jay and Silent Bob 3 will require a lot of close locations, he said “a lot of it has to do on one street.” Mewes then dropped some details on the movie’s plot: “It’s all about our store sort of competing against a store that these two characters open up across the street, and so it’s a goofy, like, ‘Hey, this is our turf,’ type of thing, and they’re like, ‘Well, you guys are old, and this is our turf. We’re the young, up-and-coming, smarter kids,’ so it’s going to be fun.“

What Will Jay And Silent Bob: Store Wars?

Previously, Smith revealed his pitch for Jay and Silent Bob 3 when confirming it was in development. “Believe it or not, man, we still find financing for Jay and Silent Bob pictures, so we’re making a movie called Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars,” the Dogma director explained. “For those who recall and still follow this closely, in Clerks III, they now run their own dispensary, since weed is legal in New Jersey. Store Wars is basically Spy vs. Spy.”

After another dispensary opens up, Jay and Silent Bob form a rivalry with the other store owners, who Smith said would be younger, though casting had not yet occurred. He continued that “they [would] spend the whole movie fighting and trying to destroy one another.” As with the prior two Jay and Silent Bob movies, “it’s a stoner comedy, man, of the highest order, and [Smith is] happy as hell” about it.

No casting or release details have been shared for Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars yet, but Mewes told eager audiences to “keep your eyes peeled, for sure.”