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Five years later, Smith reconsidered and decided to continue the series with Clerks II, resurrecting Jay and Silent Bob in supporting roles. Smith originally intended for it to be the last film set in his View Askewniverse, or to feature Jay and Silent Bob. The title and logo for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are direct references to the second-released Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back. The film features a large number of cameo appearances by famous actors, actresses, and directors. It focuses on the two titular characters, played respectively by Jason Mewes and Smith. Production Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 American comedy film directed, written by, and starring Kevin Smith as Silent Bob, the fifth to be set in his View Askewniverse, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of his cult favorite Clerks.

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It's a movie that makes fun of sequels and remakes and reboots while being all three at the same time.' Smith hopes to have the film ready for release in 2019. 'In Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Jay and Silent Bob find out that Hollywood is making a reboot of that old movie that they had made about them, and they have to go cross the country to Hollywood to stop it all over again. 'If you remember Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, it was a movie in which Jay and Silent Bob found out Hollywood was making a movie about them so they went cross country to Hollywood to stop that from happening,' Smith explained at a Q&A. In August 2017, Smith tweeted that he and Mewes were about to shoot another entry in the 'View Askewniverse' of Smith's films, a direct 'follow-up flick' to 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back called Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. They are, however, not lazy enough to just rehash the old hits without doing something new, or at least make fun of the whole endeavor. Jay and Silent Bob, or rather Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, are not immune to Hollywood's current obsession with remakes and reboots of well-liked and successful older things. Smith made Mewes aware of the situation, prompting him to give as good a performance as he could-and the suits finally approved. Studio executives even showed up to the first day of filming, fully prepared to fire Mewes if they didn't think he was good enough.

To add insult to injury, the studio also refused to pay for Mewes to travel to the set in Minnesota or for his hotel room during the shoot. Smith convinced studio executives that Mewes was right for the role that he originated, but the studio still kept Green on call for the duration of the shoot as an understudy should things not work out with Mewes. Studio executives were adamantly opposed to letting Mewes play Jay again, and instead wanted the more experienced and bankable Seth Green to step into the role. But because studio Gramercy Pictures made the quasi-sequel Mallrats, Smith had to deal with some corporate interference.

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Smith made Clerks himself, so he was free to cast anybody he wanted-like Mewes, his best friend, as Jay.