Kevin Smith: Clerks 3 Will Be In Black And White

Every year, the Comic Book Men panel at New York Comic-Con is an annual union for fans and talent. The stars of the AMC reality series show up to promote the series, and the fans appear to beg the CBM ambassador Kevin Smith about details on his upcoming movie projects—particularly Clerks 3.

Indeed, the loquacious spokesman for geeky and podcasting culture was his usually playful self talking about his new anti-sugar diet, the box office disappointments of Tusk, and, yes, Clerks 3, the latter of which he revealed a surprising new detail about.

When asked if Clerks 3 would be shot in black and white, as the original 1994 classic was presented as on 16mm, Smith boasted, “A little bit!” He continued, “The whole opening 10 minutes of Clerks 3 [will be in] black and white.”

Already enough for the happy fan to sit down, Smith added that the fan’s attitude seemed like “’is Clerks 3 black and white? That’s it. Otherwise, go fuck yourself; I saw that Walrus movie and it wasn’t fucking Clerks.’”

Smith’s humor is somewhat understandable as he began the Comic Book Men panel by stating that his body had been cleansed of sugar for the last two days due to a documentary he watched that showed a correlation in the addictiveness between cocaine and sugar. Since this decision, it’s been all been a supposed downhill trajectory.

“Everything’s going well in life. Well, except Tusk. [Sugar] is where my fucking happy comes from; it’s my dopamine.”

It’s gotten so extreme that the filmmaker apparently dreams of Lucky Charms cereal.

“I’d suck a dick to eat a bowl of Lucky charms. I’d suck Lucky Charms out of someone’s dick.”

The joking aside, Smith seemed happy to be at Comic-Con to at least talk (some of the time) about Comic Book Men. According to Smith, he had always wanted a show like this since he watched PBS’ Antiques Roadshow as a kid and wondered why they didn’t do just an episode about comics and toys. So, when AMC came to him to talk about doing a show that is where the idea to originally pitch “Pawn Stars with a comic book store” came from.

The advent of Comic Book Men as well as everything else the podcaster and writer does these days he attributes to being a “responsible stoner.” If he is getting high, he has to be writing, podcasting, or doing something creative to justify the vice.

He also freely admits it is partially where the oddity that is Tusk comes from. Despite the film receiving mixed buzz (even between opposing opinions at Den of Geek), and only opening to less than $900,000 in 600 theaters for its first weekend, the film is inarguably a unique original that Smith says has jazzed him back onto filmmaking. Indeed, he reiterated how Tusk is the source for Clerks 3’s fruition and all of Smith’s other current film projects.

According to Smith the originality of Tusk has led to Yoga Hosers, which Smith told Comic-Con revelers is three-quarters finished film (the production will finish shooting in the first quarter of 2015; Smith also plays a rubber monster in it). The financiers of that film also asked about Clerks 3, taking care of his production problem for the film, which The Weinstein Company decided it will only distribute.

Smith also spoke of Moose Jaws, claiming it will be shooting soon with a rubber moose that needs to be made “big enough to eat a small nine-year-old child.” Also when prompted by a fan question, Smith agreed that the four stars of Comic Book Men need to be camp counselors who get killed off in the film.

Comic Book Men, which boasted new footage for its fourth season at NYCC of guest stars Billy Dee Williams, Dean Cain, Brian O’Halloran, and Nichelle Nichols kissing the series’ Bryan Johnson, concluded its panel as it does every year with Smith encouraging fans to pursue their own dreams.

After all, as Smith sees it, “You know what? Tusk means the next time I make a walrus movie, it will be fucking better.”

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