On April 8, 2015, Smith said that Mallrats 2 would alternatively be his next film: "we have been conversing about in the beginning taking pictures 'Clerks III' this summertime and then we ended up heading to get to 'Mallrats' in the starting of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, exactly where we ended up likely to shoot 'Clerks' and then hopefully 'Mallrats' just before the finish of the yr.