25 years have passed since the iconic duo of Jay and Silent Bob got their first solo film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, yet the two are still going on new adventures. Since then, they’ve broken containment to appear directly or spiritually in places far beyond the View Askewniverse, most recently in the acclaimed 2025 comedy Napa Boys and the official Archie crossover comic. Earlier this year, Jason Mewes also took a trip back to turn-of-the-century Toronto for a special guest appearance on the long-running Murdoch Mysteries, where he performed a much cleaner, but still hilarious spoof of Jay’s profane rap outside the Quick Stop. More excitingly, though, Kevin Smith has another feature on the way with the two inseparable platonic partners in life.
Titled Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars, Smith has had the idea in the works since 2024, shortly before the release of his coming-of-age comedy The 4:30 Movie. The premise picks up with the titular duo after Clerks III as they go back to running their legal weed dispensary, until another shop opens up near them, sparking an all-out war for control of the turf. Smith previously described the idea to Collider earlier this year as a stoner comedy take on the classic Mad magazine comic strip Spy vs. Spy, with their rivals being much younger polar opposites to the cinematic icons. According to Mewes, they’ve got some prime real estate picked out to bring it to life, too.
Ahead of Mewes and Smith’s upcoming guest appearance on Big City Greens next week, Collider’s Maggie Lovitt had the chance to sit down with the former and talk about his role, as well as the future of Jay and Silent Bob. He confirmed that filming is set to begin “in about two weeks” in Canada, specifically just outside of Vancouver. While he can’t recall the exact name of the area, he assures it’s “beautiful,” with most of the locations close together to fit with Store Wars‘ zany premise.
“To be honest, I know that it’s not in the city of Vancouver because they were telling me when they were looking for housing, they were like, ‘Oh, we’re going to put you out closer to where we’re going to be filming.’ I wish I could remember the name of the city or, like, surrounding, I don’t know what they call it. I don’t know if it’s a city or whatever it is. I’m used to towns where I grew up, so I know that it’s like 30 or 40 minutes outside of the city in some beautiful area. And I know a lot of the locations are very close because a lot of it has to do on one street, because it’s all about our store sort of competing against a store that these two characters open up across the street, and so it’s a goofy, like, ‘Hey, this is our turf,’ type of thing, and they’re like, ‘Well, you guys are old, and this is our turf. We’re the young, up-and-coming, smarter kids,’ so it’s going to be fun.”
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Whenever things get underway on Store Wars, expect Smith to be far more vocal than Silent Bob about it. He’s known for being transparent on social media when his projects are underway, and Mewes adds that it’ll likely be the same with his next movie. “I don’t know the locations, but, you know, Kevin posts constantly,” he continued. “He does like to say, like, ‘Hey, guys, this week we’re going to be here. We’re going to need 100 extras if you want to come down and be part of the movie and stuff.’ So keep your eyes peeled, for sure.”
Beyond getting to reprise a role he knows by heart, Mewes can’t wait for the next Jay and Silent Bob because of the location alone. This won’t be his first time filming around Vancouver. “I was just going to say I’m excited because I did a movie so many years ago, about 1996, called Drawing Flies, and we filmed a lot of it up by the — I don’t know if I’m pronouncing this right — the something bridge. It’s a suspension bridge,” he recalled. The Smith-produced indie comedy written and directed by Malcolm Ingram and Matt Gissing has a sequence set on the idyllic Capilano Suspension Bridge, a Vancouver landmark set between the trees and over the Capilano River that served as a gorgeous set piece and left Mewes itching to get back to work in the area once more. “We did this nice, cool long shot across the bridge, and then we were in the woods, but yeah, it’s very beautiful there.”
‘Big City Greens’ Unites Mewes and Smith in a New, Family-Friendly Way
Before they get back to work as Jay and Silent Bob, Mewes and Smith will team up in a new way with the Big City Greens Season 5 episode “Chicken Coup” airing tomorrow, November 14, on Disney Channel. Airing with the segment “Perked Up,” it’ll largely revolve around the Greens’ scheming rooster, Cogburn (Alfred Molina). Collider can share four new images showing how the duo will get involved as coyotes named Ricky (Mewes) and Dave (Smith), whom the farm chicken is bound to meet as he ventures into the wilderness in his quest for power. They’re a scary duo who appear to have fallen on hard times, bearing scars, torn ears, and empty bellies.
Mewes was totally on board with joining the Disney series from the word go, because his kids already loved the series. “As soon as I heard Big City Greens, I was in, no matter what, to be honest, because I have a three-year-old and 11-year-old, and a lot of the stuff, as you might know if you know any of my work, which I’m sure you do, I can’t watch with my kids,” he revealed. “So I was so excited because I had already been a fan of the show and watched the show with my daughter and my son.” Getting to team up with Smith in a new way was also a treat. Playing a coyote let them explore a much different type of role than they’re used to while still embracing their on-screen brotherhood.
“It was great because, again, it was — we’re not, I know, as people who know Kevin well and myself, we’re not very scary, so it was cool to be sort of a scary character in there and get to play sort of scary. All the other animals were like, ‘Whoa,’ but then, being part of it, and then all of a sudden, there’s this twist at the end. But again, it was fun because coyotes. I mean, any animal would be great, but to get to play a coyote was fantastic. And, you know, they roll in packs, so again, Kevin and I together as a pack, beautiful.”
Mewes and Smith make their Big City Greens debut in Season 5, Episode 8 this Saturday, November 14, on Disney Channel and the following week on Disney+. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars as filming nears.
- Release Date
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June 19, 2018
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Disney Channel
- Directors
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Monica Ray, Natasha Kline, Tiffany Ford, Matt Braly
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Amy Hudkins, Jonathan Wallach, Kiana Khansmith, Charlie Gavin, Raj Brueggeman, Steve Wolfhard, Ariel Vracin-Harrell, Chris Pianka, Cheyenne Curtis, Aaron Austin, Faryn Pearl, Ben Adams, Caroline Director, Tyler Chen, Ian Mutchler
