Well, this sounds absolutely ridiculous. In an interview with Crave, Kevin Smith opened up about the rumored crossover between Jay and Silent Bob with Hellraiser‘s Pinhead and what that would’ve looked like, even going so far as to get Ben Affleck’s opinion on the idea.
Smith states:
Yeah, Bob Weinstein said to me one day on the phone, this was after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, he goes, “You know what happens with buddy team comedies in the history of cinema.” I go, “No, what? They stop making them eventually? People get tired?” And he goes, “Thing about what Abbott and Costello did. They met the monsters.”
This was back in the day at Miramax, not even The Weinstein Company. He’s like, “We have Hellraiser, Pinhead. We have Michael Myers, Halloween. We have Children of the Corn. Why not Jay and Bob meeting the modern day monsters so it’s kind of like Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein or The Wolfman but instead it’s Jay and Bob meeting Pinhead?” And I was like, “Bob, I can’t get my head around that.”
I remember I told Ben Affleck that idea. Next time I spoke to Ben I was like, “Bob Weinstein told me, he suggested that I do Jay and Silent Bob vs. Hellraiser.” And Affleck starts laughing and then he stops and he goes, “You know what, man? That movie would make $100 million.” I said, “Get out of here.” He goes, “Come on, dude. Think about it. It’s just so f***in’ stupid that enough people might be like, ‘I want to see what happens.’” I mean, to me it never went beyond that conversation but I’d often joked about if I was going to do it, it would be Jay and Silent Bob with that puzzle box and it snaps into place and they wind up in rehab.
Additionally, Smith recently took to Twitter to ask followers if he should include Jay and Silent Bob in his upcoming film Moose Jaws, which he is currently writing the script for. The film will be the third in his “True North Trilogy”, which began with Tusk and continues with Yoga Hoosiers, which recently finished filming.
You can hear more about both projects in the Hollywood Babble podcast, which is below.
After @tuskthemovie & @YogaHosers, my True North Trilogy ends w/ #MooseJaws. Should I mashup movie-universes by bringing in Jay & SilentBob?
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) July 5, 2015