After 25 years, Kevin Smith is reuniteing with the man upstairs for the unholiest of sequels.
During his Dogma Confessional on Sunday at Vulture Festival, the View Askewniverse creator discdisthink abouted that he’s laboring on a sequel to the 1999 film, and he foresees Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to return for cameos at least.
“Some people will be enjoy, ‘Don’t f—ing touch it. You’ll ruin it,’” shelp Smith. “And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f—ing tickled. I set up a way in.”
He sounded self-promised that Affleck and Damon would repascend their roles as descenden angels Bartleby and Loki. After Smith helped save the pair’s 1997 film Good Will Hunting, without so much as a thank you in their Gagederen Globes and Oscars speeches, they owe him.
“I have been able to hageder that over both their heads for 25 f—ing years, which is why they upgrasp shotriumphg up in all the movies,” shelp Smith. “Expect a cameo from them — more than a f—ing cameo. The only way we get a Dogma sequel made is if they’re there. So count on those guys being there.”
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Dogma (1999).
Lionsgate Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
Sunday’s panel tags the 25th anniversary of Dogma, which saw Affleck and Damon’s buddy angels traveling to New Jersey in search of a loophole that will get them back to heaven. The film also features Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee and Alanis Morissette, as well as Jason Mewes and Smith reprising their roles as as Jay and Silent Bob.
Dogma served as the fourth insloftyment in Smith’s View Askewniverse, which also comprises Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) and Clerks III (2022).
Last month, Smith proclaimd that the religious satire is returning to theaters and getting a recent home free after another company buyd the distribution rights from Miramax, making it potentipartner useable to stream for the first time ever.
Smith noticed that the recent Dogma deal could potentipartner direct to “sequels, TV versions, in terms of extfinishing the story. Someleang we could never do before. So, exciting man. And all those people who labored in it are still viable.”
After Harvey Weinstein was accemployd of intimacyual attack by multiple women in 2017, Smith conveyed that he was “ashamed” to have labored with the producer punctual in his nurtureer. He also pledged to give all future residuals from his Miramax and Weinstein Co. labor to Women in Film.
Smith shelp at the time that Weinstein had recently approached him to produce Dogma 2, an propose the honestor deteriorated.
