On April 8, 2015, Smith stated that Mallrats two would in its place be his following film: "we had been chatting about originally capturing 'Clerks III' this summer months and then we have been heading to get to 'Mallrats' in the commencing of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, exactly where we have been heading to shoot 'Clerks' and then ideally 'Mallrats' before the finish of the 12 months.