After 25 years, Kevin Smith is reconnecting with the person upstairs for the unholiest of sequels.
Throughout his Dogma Confessional on Sunday at Vulture Festival, the View Askewniverse creator revealed that he’s engaged on a sequel to the 1999 movie, and he expects Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to return for cameos at the least.
“Some folks will likely be like, ‘Don’t f—ing contact it. You’ll damage it,’” said Smith. “And I’m right here to inform you: I’ll. I’m f—ing tickled. I discovered a method in.”
He sounded assured that Affleck and Damon would reprise their roles as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki. After Smith helped save the pair’s 1997 movie Good Will Looking, with out a lot as a thanks of their Golden Globes and Oscars speeches, they owe him.
“I’ve been capable of maintain that over each their heads for 25 f—ing years, which is why they maintain displaying up in all the films,” stated Smith. “Anticipate a cameo from them — greater than a f—ing cameo. The one method we get a Dogma sequel made is that if they’re there. So rely on these guys being there.”
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Dogma (1999).
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Sunday’s panel marks the twenty fifth anniversary of Dogma, which noticed Affleck and Damon’s buddy angels touring to New Jersey in quest of a loophole that can get them again to heaven. The movie additionally options Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee and Alanis Morissette, in addition to Jason Mewes and Smith reprising their roles as as Jay and Silent Bob.
Dogma served because the fourth installment in Smith’s View Askewniverse, which additionally consists of Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) and Clerks III (2022).
Final month, Smith introduced that the non secular satire is returning to theaters and getting a brand new residence launch after one other firm bought the distribution rights from Miramax, making it probably accessible to stream for the primary time ever.
Smith famous that the brand new Dogma deal may probably result in “sequels, TV variations, when it comes to extending the story. One thing we may by no means do earlier than. So, thrilling man. And all these individuals who labored in it are nonetheless viable.”
After Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault by a number of girls in 2017, Smith expressed that he was “ashamed” to have labored with the producer early in his profession. He additionally pledged to donate all future residuals from his Miramax and Weinstein Co. work to Women in Film.
Smith stated on the time that Weinstein had just lately approached him to make Dogma 2, a suggestion the director declined.
