Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Writer - theatre director Kevin Smith teases that new actors will be playing mirthful book movie characters Bluntman & Chronic in his upcoming comedyJay and Silent Bob Reboot . Set torelease in the autumn , the reboot continues the adventures of the pothead characters Smith first introduced to his View Askewniverse back in his 1994 introduction featureClerks .
After appearing in supporting roles in more Smith film , including 1999’sDogma , the pot - glad pair play by Smith and Jason Mewes received their own spotlight movie with 2001’sJay and Silent Bob Strike Back . A send - up of the moving picture industry and its coming to comic book movies , the stoner clowning saw the titular duo travel to Hollywood to sabotage the making of a movie based on their comicBluntman & Chronic . The fresh pic get word Jay and Silent Bob move back to Hollywood , this time to prevent the studio from doing an ill - advisedBluntman & Chronicreboot .
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InJay and Silent Bob Strike Back , Smith and Mewes themselves played Bluntman & Chronic in the film - within - a - film , memorably pick out on Mark Hamill ’s nefarious Cocknocker in a battle that ended with Smith and Hamill whipping out lightsabers . However , Kevin Smithindicates that in the reboot , different actors will take on the Bluntman & Chronic character , though of course he does not name the thespian ( leave fans to contemplate about who he could think ) . Smith also card that the comical book pair will get new costumes . See his tweet below :
This teasing tidings about Bluntman & Chronic is just the recent in a train of update Smith has extend aboutJay and Silent BobReboot . Recently , the film maker contain to Instagramto uncover big casting newsabout the pic , reassert that Joe Manganiello , Craig Robinson , Frankie Shaw , Justin Long and Stephen Blatt all show up for a courtroom scene . Smith alsoposted a first image fromthe picture reach fan a coup d’oeil of what Jay and Silent Bob wait like almost 20 years on from their last movie ( Silent Bob of course of study looks a lot thin as Smith was force to lose a great deal of free weight after suffering a heart flack during a stand up determine last yr ) . In another societal medium post not related to Jay and Silent Bob , Smith talked about getting emotionalafter seeing aMallratsreference in a real funny ledger movie , Captain Marvel .
David Smith of course has work on with a band of noted doer over the class of his vocation , admit Matt Damon and Ben Affleck , who starred together inDogma . conjecture already is tilt toward Damon and Affleck reuniting with Smith to play Bluntman & Chronic inJay and Silent BobReboot , though it ’s worth mentioning that Smith has suggest he no longer has a human relationship with Affleck , making it a long - shotthat the former Batman actorwould turn back to working with Smith . Of of course , Affleck playing Bluntman after leaving Batman behind would be a staggeringly funny joke , so perhaps Affleck would be game .
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