![]() ![]() Noted for holding detailed audience Q&A sessions, initially attached to his movies, he discovered that people would pay to come to an auditorium and listen to him tell stories and answer audience questions without any context. He is well known for being extremely approachable and friendly towards his fans often he will take time after his appearances at comic book conventions and the like to sign autographs and chat with fans for multiple hours. This expanded into a network of podcasts under the SModcast Network banner, including Tell 'Em Steve-Dave (with Smith's close friends Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan, and Brian Quinn), Jay and Silent Bob Get Old (Smith and Jason Mewes), Plus One (Smith and his wife Jennifer Schwalbach-Smith), Blow Hard (indie filmmaker Malcolm Ingram, with Smith occasionally co-hosting), and Hollywood Babble-On (Smith and actor Ralph Garman). He has also become a prolific podcaster, creating the weekly series SModcast with longtime partner producer Scott Mosier. Smith also jump started the careers of two of his friends, Jason Lee (who before Mallrats was one of the most well known professional skateboarders in the country) and Ben Affleck by casting them in major roles in Mallrats and Chasing Amy before they both went off to fame and fortune (both would appear in all of Smith's other Askewniverse movies). Released in 1994, Clerks became an instant cult favorite and one of the pioneers of the independent genre. It starred various lifelong friends and local amateur actors, notably childhood friends Jason Mewes and Jeff Anderson. Smith got his start by making Clerks, a black and white film shot on location in the scenic convenience store where he worked at the time and financed by maxing out his credit cards and putting his comic book collection up for collateral. As a result, he tends to go back to the Askewniverse trough, often self-aware of its approaching Franchise Zombie status. Smith is best known for the eight-film New Jersey Trilogy set in The View Askewniverse his non-Askewniverse productions Jersey Girl and Zack and Miri Make a Porno have not been as successful (or at least no more successful). They have one daughter, Harley Quinn Smith (yes, named after the Batman: The Animated Series character he is close friends with writer Paul Dini). He married journalist Jennifer Schwalbach in 1999. ![]() Smith is a proud native of New Jersey and most of his films take place in the state. ![]() Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, comic book writer, podcast host, comedian and motivational speaker best known for his "View Askewniverse" films, notably Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out." We all look as old as we look."Storytelling is my currency. "All of us are in our late 40s, if not 50s… and you'll see the progression. "It's definitely a movie about people who try to be young while being old," Smith said. The filmmaker also made a concerted effort to not hide the fact that the cast members have aged along with their characters. Smith revealed that Randal's movie is called Inconvenience and that it will reshoot key moments from 1994's Clerks in black-and-white, replicating the style of the franchise's first title while differentiating the movie-within-a-movie scenes from the rest of the film. So our boys essentially wind up making Clerks."Ĭlerks 3 will be shot in color, with the exception of the home movie that Randal sets out to make. ![]() "But before he dies he wants to memorialize himself. "The film is predicated on the idea that Randal survives a heart attack, a massive heart attack, quite like I did, and then winds up, you know, deciding that he's wasted his life," Smith told Vanity Fair of the Clerks 3 plot. Writer-director Kevin Smith previously revealed that the story of the threequel would, at least in part, be inspired by his own life experiences, with Randal emerging as the main character after suffering a life-threatening heart attack in the movie - similar to the near-fatal heart attack that Smith survived in real life back in 2018. Image credit: John Baer (via Vanity Fair) Vanity Fair shared the image of the reassembled cast from the original Clerks movie and its 2006 sequel, offering fans a fresh look at Elias (Trevor Fehrman), Dante (Brian O'Halloran), Becky (Rosario Dawson), and Randal (Jeff Anderson), lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in their respective work uniforms at the Quick Stop convenience store. ![]()
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