Just two months and a few days ago, Kevin Smith announced that he had started working on a screenplay for Clerks III, and this morning he has confirmed that he has finished work on it. Posting the photo below on Facebook, Smith stated he was excited at the prospect of heading back to New Jersey to shoot the film and that he would fund the production himself and not turn to a crowdsouring website like Kickstarter.
Smith is calling Clerks III “The Empire Strikes Back of what’s now become the Clerks Trilogy,” though I suspect that is more for its 137-page length than because it might end on any cliffhanger. Of course, there could be the revelation that Silent Bob is actually Dante’s father, so who knows?
