Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, two of a era’s most embellished filmmakers, have appeared in an inexplicable variety of Kevin Smith movies. Each have acted in Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again, Jersey Lady and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot — none of that are more likely to present up of their Oscar retrospectives. (You possibly can add Mallrats and Clerks III to Affleck’s IMDb.) Why do they hold popping up in Smith’s comedies — together with potential roles in his could-be-maybe-it’s-happening Dogma 2?
It’s all due to the recommendation Smith gave the duo once they wrote their Oscar-winning screenplay, Good Will Looking. Affleck and Damon took Smith’s recommendation and improved their script — then utterly forgot to thank him once they accepted their Academy Award for Finest Authentic Screenplay. “I’ve been in a position to maintain that over each their heads for 25 fucking years, which is why they hold exhibiting up in all the flicks,” Smith stated Sunday at Vulture Pageant, per Deadline. “Anticipate a cameo from them — greater than a fucking cameo. The one manner we get a Dogma sequel made is that if they’re there. So rely on these guys being there.”
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Okay then! Smith has been consuming out on the Affleck/Damon bank card for greater than 25 years, due to that awards speech oversight in 1998. He’s about to ring up extra costs with Dogma 2, he advised the group this weekend. “Some folks can be like, ‘Don’t fucking contact it. You’ll damage it. And I’m right here to inform you: I’ll. I’m fucking tickled. I discovered a manner in.”
Smith teased the return of Loki and Bartleby, the fallen angels performed by Damon and Affleck within the unique. Within the first film, they attempt to exploit a loophole in Catholic dogma to finagle a return ticket to Heaven (and undo all creation). Unsurprisingly, Catholics had an issue with Dogma — their protests may need helped the movie turn into Smith’s most worthwhile as much as that time.
The unique Dogma has been in its personal type of Miramax purgatory for years, unavailable on streaming or residence video. One other firm just lately purchased the rights, to Smith’s delight. “They had been like, ‘Would you be involved in re-releasing it and touring it such as you do together with your films?’ I stated, ‘100%, are you kidding me? Touring a film that I do know folks like, and it’s sentimental and nostalgic? We’ll clear up,” he gushed.
Dogma 2 may simply be the start. Smith is imagining every kind of “sequels, TV variations, by way of extending the story. One thing we may by no means do earlier than. So, thrilling man.”
Matt and Ben, you’ve been warned.
