Director Kevein Smith says “It’s Mall or Nothing!” when it comes to naming the sequel to his cult classic Mallrats.
[dropcap size=small]K[/dropcap]evin Smith took the easy route when it came time to name the sequel for Clerks, and when it was all said and done, Clerks II was the name he chose. Not too much thought went into this one I can guess, but when talks of a sequel for Mallrats started to rumor, we thought, “Will he just name it Mallrats 2?” The answer is no, the sequel will be called Mallbrats.
The writer/director has been known to release information via his many social media outlets, but he didn’t just write the title in a tweet, we got a picture. What looks like a screen shot of Mr. Smith’s computer with a title page of a script with the title “MALLBRATS.”
A few lines of text followed the picture, “full of old friends” will most likely mean that we will be seeing a lot of old faces. Kevin Smith has reported that 18 characters are returning, and that includes Jeremy London as T.S. Quint, Jason Lee as Brodie, Shannen Doherty as Rene, Jason Mewes as Jay, Michael Rooker as Jared Svenning, and Brian O’Halloran as Gill Hicks.
There is also a very touching shout out to James Jacks or “Jim“, who was a producer on the first Mallrats and who passed away last year. There was a special shout out in the original Mallrats for him that said “Thanks for treating us like the Coens as opposed to the twenty-something know-nothings we really are.”
Smith might have stumbled across the name of his sequel a year ago. He had posted a photo of himself and his daughter at a mall with the caption, “A MALLRAT and his MALLBRAT: Silent Bob and his daughter go shopping for snap backs.”
Not much else is known about the sequel, but we do know that it will start filming this summer and will most likely be out the following year. When more information is known about the film, the director, a.k.a. Silent Bob, won’t be so silent and will let social media know.
