On April 8, 2015, Smith claimed that Mallrats 2 would as a substitute be his following movie: "we have been chatting about originally shooting 'Clerks III' this summer season and then we were being going to get to 'Mallrats' in the commencing of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, wherever we were going to shoot 'Clerks' and then with any luck , 'Mallrats' prior to the conclusion of the 12 months.