Mallrats-The Series

[ZariusTwo]

Mallrats isn’t just getting a sequel — it’s getting a TV series. At least, according to Kevin Smith.

The director claims he was in the process of financing and licensing a second movie with Universal, but it took longer than expected.

“We started reconfiguring the idea of doing Mallrats not as a film but as a series, and Universal and I are just about to close our deal to do Mallrats the series,” Smith said on WMMR’s The Preston & Steve Show. “Then we take it out into the world and find a home for it. So, instead of doing a Mallrats movie, I’m going to do 10 episodes of a Mallrats series.”

Smith first announced that he was working on a Mallrats sequel in 2015, 20 years after the original was released. Months later, he shared his 113-page draft for the script, entitled Mallbrats. Smith explained the delay, admitting that he was under the impression he could fund the new movie himself, but later discovered that Universal wouldn’t let the Mallrats title go.

“We submitted the script and my agent comes back to me and he goes, ‘Well, apparently Universal has never let a catalogue title go, any title they own, they’ve retained. They’ve never done something where they’re like, ‘Oh, you can take it back and go make a sequel.’ Never in the history of the studio,’” Smith said. “So we entered a protracted negotiation with Universal trying to get it made in different pockets of the studio.”

Apparently, the current pocket is in television.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/10...rats-sequel-tv

[Andrew NDB]

Kevin Smith is working on a Mallrats 2 script again. "Twilight of the Mallrats" this time and not "Mallrats 2" or "Mallbrats." Maybe a play on malls closing down everywhere.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/kevin-sm...rats-2-script/

[ABrown]

Mallrats has always been my favorite movie in the Kevin Smith-verse. But I'm not sure how I would feel about a sequel.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ABrown

Mallrats has always been my favorite movie in the Kevin Smith-verse. But I'm not sure how I would feel about a sequel.

I don't know that I even wanted to see Mallrats 2 like 10 years ago. I liked it better than Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, but not by much.

If I had to rate the Jay & Silent Bob universe movies...

1. Chasing Amy
2. Clerks
3. Dogma
4. Clerks II
5. Mallrats
6. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

[Leo656]

Mallrats is probably the "funniest" of the bunch and the most like a "typical screwball comedy" but it definitely doesn't hit the same notes when you re-watch it at age 30 versus first watching it as a teenager.

I like it, it's just not as good as one typically remembers it as being. I still think the critics were way too harsh but it's objectively a weak link. I'd watch a sequel, though, even just for old times' sake.

...Wait, Mallrats is the one where you see Joey Lauren Adams's tits. Forget everything I said, best flick in the whole series.