Everything We Know About Clerks III

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After more than a decade in development, director Kevin Smith's Clerks III is approaching release. The upcoming threequel will bring back many of the iconic characters from past Clerks installments while drawing on meta-fictional humor and elements from director and series creator Smith's recent life. The new movie will bring Randal and Dante into the modern-day while still delivering the sense of humor that fans of Clerks and Smith's other View Askewniverse movies will be expecting.

Released in 1994, the original Clerks was a pivotal movie in the rise of independent American cinema. Shot in black and white for under $30,000, the dark comedy about two men working a dead-end convenience store job became a critical darling and grossed over $3 million in theaters. In addition to a number of other View Askewniverse movies that featured the breakout characters Jay and Silent Bob, Kevin Smith revisited Randal and Dante in the 2006 sequel Clerks II which saw the duo working in fast food, as well as a short-lived animated series.

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Kevin Smith first started hinting at Clerks III in 2012, initially teasing that the third installment could take the form of a Broadway musical or a crowdfunded film. However, it would take several script revisions and nine years before filming would actually begin on Clerks 3. Despite the long gap between movies, audiences should expect to see most of their favorite Clerks characters returning. Here's everything that's known about Clerks 3.

Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson, who appeared as central characters Dante Hicks and Randal Graves in the previous Clerks movies, will be returning for Clerks 3. Jay and Silent Bob, played by Jason