Jay e Silent Bob estão de volta!

Kevin Smith, esse cara batuta, esse cara bacana, nerd amado por muitos, está fazendo uma sequência de um de seus filmes mais queridos pelos fâs: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (O Império do Besteirol Contra-Ataca, no Brasil). Sim, meus queridos Nerds! O que? Você não conhece a dupla e nem assistiu ao filme? Nós, do Sétima Cabine, achamos sua falta de nerdice perturbadora…

Bem, de volta ao assunto! O filme será chamado Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, e será sobre a dupla, com Jason Mewes de volta ao papel de Jay, e o próprio Kevin Smith de volta ao seu papel de Silent Bob, retornando a Hollywood para impedir um reboot do filme Bluntman and Chronic, filme este que eles mesmos tentaram impedir que acontecesse no primeiro filme.

Kevin Smith diz que o filme irá satirizar a cultura de reboots que se apoderou de Hollywood, e que ele teve “a gargalhada da minha vida” enquanto escrevia o roteiro no mês passado. Smith originalmente planejava um terceiro filme da série Clerks (O Balconista, no Brasil), mas um dos atores principais pediu para sair do projeto.

Então, Smith escolheu fazer um novo filme da dupla Jay e Silent Bob porque ele detém os direitos dos personagens, diferente de O Balconista e de Barrados no Shopping.

Veja o post do Instagram do autor para mais detalhes.

This is not a drill! This is an actual image from my laptop! Yes, Kids – @jayandsilentbob are coming back! Here's the story: Sadly, Clerks III can't happen (one of our four leads opted out of the flick). So I worked on a #Mallrats movie instead… which also didn't happen because it turned into a #Mallrats series. I've pitched said sequel series to 6 different networks only to find no takers thus far. Mind you, I'm not complaining: nobody gets to make EVERYTHING they wanna make in this business (do they?). And I've been lucky to make anything at all, there's so much competition out there, so many much cooler ideas from fresh folks. And besides: I had #comicbookmen and then @tuskthemovie and @yogahosers (which all came together so crazy quickly), and the podcasts and #fatmanonbatman. With all of that, how could I bitch about no Clerks III or Mallrats 2? Then when I started directing @thecw shows, it was such a slice of Heaven on Earth, I happily put my Askewniverse sequels to the side. Since I sold #Clerks and #Mallrats years ago, they're owned by others, which limits my moves with my own material. I don't mind: back in the day, all I ever wanted to do was sell my stuff so I could be in the movie biz in the first place. So I don't own Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy or #Dogma… But I DO own #jayandsilentbob. So while I love playing with someone else's new toys on @cwtheflash and @Supergirl, I'm getting eager to play with my old toys again in the inter-connected View Askewniverse I spent the first half of my career creating. And so all last month, I had the time of my life laughing while writing "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot" – a fun flick in which the Jersey boys have to go back to Hollywood to stop a brand new reboot of the old "Bluntman & Chronic Movie" they hated so much. It's a tongue-in-cheek, silly-ass satire that pokes fun at the movie business's recent re-do obsession, featuring an all-star cast of cameos and familiar faces! And I already met with the good folks at Miramax and they're into it, so I'm hoping we'll be shooting in the summer! Never give up, kids. You CAN do anything you want in life, so long as you're patient and malleable. #KevinSmith

A photo posted by Kevin Smith (@thatkevinsmith) on Feb 9, 2017 at 1:54pm PST

Veja o trailer original de Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back: