This will be the fifth time that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will play the characters on the big screen. After first appearing in ‘Clerks’, Mewes and Smith played the smalltime drug dealers duo in ‘Mallrats’, ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and ‘Clerks II’.
The characters have also appeared in cartoons, had comic books based on their adventures and there’s have been a couple of DVD shows, including one filmed in Dublin, ‘Jay & Silent Bob Get Old: Teabagging in Dublin’!

And now Smith has taken to Twitter to announce a new movie entitled ‘Jay and Silent Bob Reboot’.
“16 years ago, #JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack was released in theaters,” he wrote on Twitter. “And this Fall, we shoot a follow-up flick called #JayAndSilentBobReboot!”.
Kevin Smith promised that the new movie will include an “all-star cast of cameos and familiar faces”.

16 years ago, #JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack was released in theaters. And this Fall, we shoot a follow-up flick called #JayAndSilentBobReboot! pic.twitter.com/bULHxzX3aj

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) August 25, 2017

Earlier this year, one of the leading actress of the original Clerks movie, Lisa Spoonauer passed away, at only 44-years-old, after battling against degenerative disease.
Following her death, back in May, Kevin Smith wrote a moving tribute.
“In 1992, I went looking for Lisa without knowing either who she was or the integral role she'd play in my life," Smith wrote on Instagram.
"I'd held a night of open auditions at the #firstavenueplayhouse (where we found @briancohalloran and @marilynghigliotti) but the perfect Caitlin Bree never walked through the door.
“So I popped into an acting class at Brookdale Community College and watched the students from the back.
“Lisa was easily the most natural and authentic voice in the room. She didn't sound like she was acting at all; she delivered scripted dialogue as if she was inventing her conversation in the moment, like people do in real life.
“Captivated, I approached Lisa cold in the parking lot after the class and said "This is gonna sound creepy but... Do you wanna be in a movie?" Fearlessly, she replied ‘Not if it's porn.’
“I told her a bit about Clerks and gave her a copy of the script and my phone number. She called me a few days later and said "Well it's not porn, but everybody talks like it is. It's funny. I'll do it."'

Kevin Smith's to late #Clerks actress Lisa Spoonauer, calls her one of the “chief architects” of the film: https://t.co/1xhENoRFcg pic.twitter.com/ESaAdMhJto

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 24, 2017