Clerks III Is Breaking Franchise Tradition (But It Can Still Work)
The recently dropped trailer for Clerks III provided a nostalgia rush for Kevin Smith fans. 16 years after Clerks II hit theaters, it was great to see the gang back together again at the Quick Stop convenience store – particularly the central quartet of Brian O’Halloran as Dante, Jeff Anderson as Randal, Jason Mewes as Jay, and Smith himself as Silent Bob. Rosario Dawson and Trevor Fehrman reprise their Clerks II roles as Becky and Elias, respectively, and Marilyn Ghigliotti is back as Veronica from the first movie.
The last movie left Dante and Randal in a good place as they finally took control of their own destiny and bought the Quick Stop to run for themselves. In Clerks III, Randal has a heart attack – much like Smith himself did a few years ago – which forces him to re-evaluate his life. With Dante’s help, he decides to make a movie about their lives at the Quick Stop. This premise will seemingly break the franchise tradition. Both Clerks and Clerks II took place over the course of a single day, but Clerks III’s filmmaking storyline seems to span a few weeks.
First Clerks 3 Trailer Sees Dante And Randal Making Their Own Quick Stop Movie
This plot reflects the way a young Kevin Smith made the original Clerks film when he was an employee at the actual Quick Stop convenience store in New Jersey. In real life, it took Smith a month of long nights to shoot Clerks in the store where he was working all day, so it’s unlikely that Clerks III will take place across one day like its predecessors. The day-in-the-life structure is part of the charm of the first two Clerks movies, as they captured the beautiful mundanity of everyday life, but the threequel can still work if it focuses on what made the first two films so endearing:
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