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Jay and Silent Bob Will No Longer Appear in Kevin Smith’s Horror-Comedy Spoof ‘Moose Jaws’
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.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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