Jay and Silent Bob reboot confirmed by Kevin Smith

Smith, who played Silent Bob, is reuniting with his original co-star Jay Mewes, who played Jay, on the project

Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes in 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' (Tracy Bennett/Miramax/View Askew Prods/Kobal/REX)

Kevin Smith has confirmed that his long-promised reboot of his Jay and Silent Bob characters is officially in the works.

“Spent the first day of 2019 having a #JayAndSilentBobReboot pre-pre-production meeting,” the director tweeted, having first announced the project back in August 2017.

Smith, who played Silent Bob, is reuniting with his original co-star Jay Mewes, who played Jay, on the project and is teaming up with producer Jordan Monsanto, who has worked with Smith on several of his films and is married to Mewes.

The characters first appeared in Smith’s directorial debut Clerks, released in 1994, and continued to feature in many of his subsequent films, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks 2.

These films, largely set in his home state of New Jersey, are now known collectively as the View Askew universe.

After revealing that Clerks III and a Mallrats series failed to work out, Smith said in 2017 that he had written a project titled Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which he described as “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,” he added.

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