One of the projects Kevin Smith has been working on in quarantine is his Jaws spoof Moose Jaws, a horror-comedy first teased several years back. Moose Jaws is set to be the third and final film in Smith’s Canada-set “True North Trilogy,” which kicked off with Tusk and continued with Yoga Hosers, and the original plan was that Jay and Silent Bob would appear in it.
Silent Bob, we had heard a while back, was going to be killed by Moose Jaws. But as Smith reveals in a new interview with Jake Hamilton, a rewrite has removed the duo from the movie.
“Right now I’m in the middle of that [rewrite] and I’m stripping Jay and Silent Bob out of it,” Smith reveals. “The first draft I had done, Jay and Silent Bob were riddled throughout it. And now I want that movie to be by itself. Jay and Silent Bob are gonna come back in [the Mallrats sequel] and stuff like that. So I’m just kind of de-Jay and Bob’ing Moose Jaws.”
Smith had said at Sundance back in 2016, “Moose Jaws is like, it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written. This is a fuckin’ fan film. This is like pouring my heart out on a page. I love Jaws, and I love Canada, and I combined the two of them. So the whole thing is beat-for-beat Jaws, up until the third act. In the third act it becomes Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, and ends with Return of the Jedi. It’s pretty magical.”
“Justin [Long] returns as Tusk,” he added at the time, “and he fights Moose Jaws.”
You can watch Jake Hamilton’s full interview with Kevin Smith below.