On April 8, 2015, Smith stated that Mallrats two would as a substitute be his following movie: "we had been chatting about initially capturing 'Clerks III' this summer and then we ended up likely to get to 'Mallrats' in the beginning of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, in which we were heading to shoot 'Clerks' and then with any luck , 'Mallrats' in advance of the conclude of the 12 months.