Last month, it was reported that Lionsgate would produce Kevin Smith’s third Clerks movie. The film is se to bring back the original cast and some of the characters introduced in the film’s sequel. The original movie was released in black-and-white, while Clerks II was in color. When talking about whether or not the upcoming film would be in black and white or color, Smith provided the answer on an episode of Fatman Beyond. Thanks to the film’s plot, with Randal creating a film dramatizing his life as a clerk, Smith will be able to use both black-and-white and color formats in the new movie.
“It’s both [black and white and color],”
“The premise of the movie, of course, is that they make a movie, so the movie they make is in black and white. The movie’s in color, but [it’s black and white] when they shoot their version of Clerks — which is called Inconvenience. That was the original title for Clerks. … The black and white movie they’re making is called Inconvenience, that’s their version of Clerks. There’s a lot of us replicating the scenes that you know insanely well from Clerks, and the beautiful thing is they’re replicated with all the same people, and we’re all so f**king old.”
Clerks III began filming on August 2nd, Smith’s 51st birthday.
“On August 2, for my 51st birthday, I return to Quick Stop – the little store that started it all – with my friends Dante, Randal, Jay, Silent Bob, Becky, & Elias! Thank you,”
