On April 8, 2015, Smith reported that Mallrats 2 would instead be his up coming movie: "we ended up speaking about to begin with capturing 'Clerks III' this summertime and then we had been heading to get to 'Mallrats' in the commencing of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, exactly where we ended up likely to shoot 'Clerks' and then ideally 'Mallrats' in advance of the conclusion of the calendar year.