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“Clerks” stars Brian O’Halloran and Marilyn Ghigliotti stopped off at Comic Con this week to sign autographs but also talk to media about the recently-announced “Clerks III”, which Kevin Smith’s gearing up to shoot as soon as he’s done with the “Mallrats” sequel.
Franchise Fred over at Nerd Report snagged some time with the duo, and asked a few pressing questions on “Clerks III”. Here’s a couple of nuggets :
Franchise Fred: Is there still a video store for Randal?
Brian O’Halloran: You know what? I don’t know. When you think about it, video stores have kind of gone the way of the dodo with the streaming market so when Dante and Randal bought the block of stores again, the convenience store and video store, they were setting up like they were going to rent videos again. If anybody knows the art districts of certain cities and towns, there are usually these really great independently owned video stores that find really great DVDs that you can’t find around the world. I think that’s a good way to keep that alive, that you can’t just get it streaming.
Franchise Fred: Are you going to be in Clerks III too?
Marilyn Ghigliotti: I am going to be in Clerks III.
Franchise Fred: At the time of Clerks II Kevin was saying, “This is it. We’re not going to do a trilogy.” Did you sort of know, just give it time, he’ll eventually come around?
Brian O’Halloran: I never knew if he ever would’ve said, “I would never do a Clerks III.” I know at one time he said, “I’m never making another film again.” That part, I don’t know about a Clerks III. I don’t think the Clerks II part of it scarred him. So when he approached saying that he had a great idea about Clerks III. We were on the set, I had come down to visit those guys while they were shooting an episode of Comic Book Men. We were at Kevin’s store and he was like, “Brian, I want to tell you something.” He pulled me aside and went on this 40 minute storytelling as to what Clerks III was going to be about. He’s like, “What do you think?” I’m like, “That is awesome. That is such an amazing way to see where these characters are.” When he said that, I was glad that he was back into the filmmaking business again. He went back in to do Tusk and Red State. And to visit these characters again I thought it was a lot of fun. Then when I finally got the script and got to read and see all the recurrences of a bunch of characters, especially Marilyn Ghigliotti here who played Veronica in the original, was great to see that he’s kind of closing out the world that way.
Franchise Fred: Since Dante in Clerks II left his fiance for Rosario Dawson’s character, can you imagine what turmoil he’ll be thrown into when Veronica comes back?
Brian O’Halloran: Who knows? That’s waiting to be seen and even Marilyn herself does not know what’s going to happen with Veronica in the script, but I know. Kevin knows. A bunch of us know. It’ll be interesting to see where this world goes. To be honest with you, after reading it, I think it’s the best thing he’s written that takes everything he’s ever written and puts it together in a really great, awesome story with a lot of great moments and a lot of comedy of course, but some really heartfelt moments as well that I think people will enjoy.
See the whole interview at Nerd Report.
