The 3 Guys Podcast Recorded on 6/9/2022 Superhero Anatomy! Topless Fortune Telling! Bunny Bashing! And More. In this episode we review Kevin Smith’s cult classic Mallrats (released 1995) starring Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Priscilla Barnes, Michael Rooker, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS! The 3 Guys Rating 3.3/5
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Notes From The Show * Quick Synopsis * Released: October 20, 1995
Directed By: Kevin Smith
Screenplay By: Kevin Smith
Music By: Ira Newborn
Stars: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Priscilla Barnes, Michael Rooker, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes
Plot: Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Tagline: Superhero Anatomy! Topless Fortune Telling! Bunny Bashing! And More!
How did this movie do Budget: $6 Million Box Office: $2 Million * Extended Edition * Extended Scenes found in the collectors edition: + The extended cut contains over 30 minutes of additional footage and subplots. + An alternate opening scene, in which Mr. Svenning hosts a Ball for the Governor of New Jersey (played by Elizabeth Ashley). In this scene, T.S. (dressed as a colonial musketman), accidentally gets his musket tangled up in Brandi’s hair, then accidentally shoots at the Governor on the roof of a school, which ends up costing Mr. Svenning his reputation as well as a big pay raise. This explains the reason why Svenning shows an intense dislike for T.S. and why Brandi is so intent on breaking up with him. This scene also makes no mention of Julie Dwyer’s death, as the theatrical cut did. (That cut subplot was referenced in the final cut of the movie, where the TV execs mention to Svenning that they do not want a repeat of the Governor’s Ball). + A shot that shows the Quick Stop from Clerks. + A new subplot of Brodie showing intentions of wanting to be on television, which explains his surprised look during his appearance on Truth or Date. + An extended rant from Mr. Svenning, a result of T.S. letting it slip that he intended to propose to Brandi. + The scene where Mr. Svenning meets with Brodie before he has both Brodie and T.S. removed by LaFours has several restored lines and ends with more finger- and hand-licking of the melty pretzel chocolate by Mr. Svenning after the boys are removed. + A scene after Truth or Date in which Mr. Svenning demands to have T.S. and Brodie arrested, but instead he is the one who is arrested. It turns out that since Svenning was the producer of the show, he faces multiple FCC fines for Brodie’s antics. + An extended “Where are they now?” ending sequence, in which Mr. Svenning is shown at his job at the network as a janitor (along with his production assistant, still wearing his headset), and Shannon Hamilton is shown screaming after his rape in prison. + A scene that showed Tricia flirting and having sex with LaFours in order to distract him from catching Jay and Silent Bob. This explains the final segment in the ‘where are they now’ ending sequence, showing LaFours kissing Tricia during the book signing. * Sequel News * News on the sequel as of 6/17/2022: + On March 13, 2015, Kevin Smith confirmed that Mallrats 2 was being written and was slated to begin shooting in summer 2016. + In January 2020, Smith announced that development on a Mallrats sequel film has started up again, under a new title Twilight of the Mallrats. + On a recent Fan Club Q&A, Kevin Smith said there were three paths to getting the movie done. - First was through Universal, but they are currently focused on Fast and Furious sized movies and the folks there always forget they even own Mallrats. - Second, there is a Universal Video division. As of right now the film they believe will cost in the 7 – 8 million range to get done. Universal Video has said they can film anything he wants but will have to deal with a 5 Million cap. So right now that seems to be up in the air. - Third possibility with Peacock (which is owned by Universal). Kevin has stated that maybe after Clerks 3 they will pitch the Mallrats movie or 6 episode mini-series as a Peacock production. * Trivia * + Kevin Smith’s friend Walter was the template for Brodie. Like Brodie, Walter has a comics vault, Walter has been known to carry a dixie cup around (sometimes for an entire day), Walter is a Sega freak. The only difference is Walter is married. + Kevin Smith jokingly apologized for making Mallrats at the Independent Spirit Awards. On his office’s answering machine after the movie’s poor showing in theaters, Lee recalled that Smith greeted callers by saying, “Hey, this is Kevin. We can’t get to the phone right now. We’re too busy licking our wounds.” + LaFours the security guard who wears the white straw cap is a reference to LaFours in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who also always wears a white straw cap. + The character of Shannon Hamilton is meant to be an inside joke about Shannen Doherty. She was married very briefly to Ashley Hamilton so hence her name was (temporarily) Shannen Hamilton. + Note the Jaws reference – not the obvious marriage scene link – the main characters are called TS Quint and Brodie Bruce, compared to Quint and Brody from Jaws. The nickname for the shark on set was “Bruce”. + Brodie’s comic book collection seen in the movie was director Kevin Smith’s collection at the time (which has grown considerably since). The collection is what Smith was able to purchase back after selling his original collection to finance production of Clerks (1994). + The studio almost replaced Jason Mewes (Jay) with Seth Green. Kevin Smith insisted that Mewes should play Jay, but the studio made Smith take auditions for the role. Breckin Meyer also auditioned. In the end, all concerned agreed that Mewes was right for the part. + While shopping, Rene Mosier (Shannen Doherty) is seen wearing at least three different outfits. Doherty had a clause in her contract that stated she could keep everything her character wore, so she came up with the plan that her character would wear everything she bought. + Brodie’s shirt is the faces of all the actors that auditioned for the role of Brodie morphed together. + According to Kevin Smith, another actor auditioned for, and eventually received, the lead role of Brodie. On the first day of shooting his scenes, the unnamed actor “broke down”, and was unable to give the same performance that had earned him the role. The actor was then replaced by Jason Lee. + This is the second film in Kevin Smith’s intricately interconnected View Askewniverse series (the others being Clerks (1994), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006) and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)). The movies are all linked by characters, themes, and events, and each contains numerous references to the others. + The only film by Kevin Smith that he did not edit himself, although he and Scott Mosier cut the extended version that’s on the Tenth Anniversary DVD. + The content of the dialogue between Quint and Brodie about whether Superman would be able to have sex and/or a baby with a non-superpowered woman, is taken from a classic 1971 essay by science fiction author Larry Niven called “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.” + Seth Green was on-call, ready at any moment to fly to Minnesota, so he could replace Jason Mewes as Jay. + The Wile E. Coyote-style blueprints used by Jay and Silent Bob were drawn by producer Scott Mosier. + During the Batman homage, as Jay and Silent Bob escape from La Fours, the belting attached to Kevin Smith slipped. The crane refused to start (someone had shut it off), and the key could not be located, nearly resulting in a possibly lethal fall. + The original beginning of the movie tested poorly and was replaced by one that was filmed in Los Angeles. The original beginning contained an incident at the Governor’s Ball (the one mentioned by the television executives). + Brodie is named after the main character in Jaws (1975) (a favorite film of Smith’s, and one that he frequently references in his work), while his surname, Bruce, was the nickname given to the animatronic shark in the Jaws film franchise. + While doing event appearances as Merle Dixon from AMC’s The Walking Dead, fans brought Michael Rooker (Mr. Svenning) bags of chocolate covered pretzels. + The end credits scene telling us the fate of each of the main characters is an homage to Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), which also has many scenes that take place in a mall. Kevin Smith even made sure to use the same font and color for the graphics. Both films were cast by Don Phillips, who also cast Dazed and Confused (1993). + Studio executives required quite a bit of language to be removed or replaced with weaker language. + The song playing in the background, while the characters wait for the elevator, is the same one playing inside the elevator at the end of The Blues Brothers (1980). + When Brodie is trying to cut in line at the comic book store, and is being yelled at, the “fan boy” says, “Tell ’em, Steve Dave!” The man named Steve Dave yelling at Brodie is played by Bryan Johnson, and the fan boy is played by Walter Flanagan. This catchphrase was later used as the title of a podcast in which Johnson and Flanagan take part. + When Willam (Ethan Suplee) gets startled, he says “poopie trim”. This is a reference to an inside joke between Kevin Smith and script supervisor Carol Banker. + The pass that Mr. Svenning wears around his neck is the logo of View Askew, the film’s production company. + In Stan Lee’s cameo for Captain Marvel (2019), Carol Danvers finds Lee reading the script for this film rehearsing his lines. + The scene where backstage before the game show ran by Jared Svenning starts, Roddy yelled at T.S. and Brodie quoting “You called down the thunder, now you got it”! That’s the same line that was quoted by Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993). Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp alongside Michael Rooker, who played Sherman McMasters. Rooker’s character was present when Russell quoted this line. The whole line is “All right, Clanton… you called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it! You see that? It says United States Marshal! Take a good look at him, Ike… ’cause that’s how you’re gonna end up! The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin’ it! So run, you cur… RUN! Tell all the other curs the law’s comin. You tell ’em I’M coming… and Hell’s coming with me, you hear?… Hell’s coming with me!” + Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee would both go on to star in My Name Is Earl (2005). + In the magic eye picture in the mall there is no sail boat, it’s a bunch of shapes. + Cameo – Stan Lee: Originally, Stan Lee was not going to have a cameo in the movie. Kevin Smith had written a fictional Stan Lee-type character, but through a connection, Stan Lee was asked to be in the movie and agreed. + Stan Lee initially didn’t want to be in the film. He felt the dialogue assigned to him wasn’t what he would personally say. Kevin Smith responded that it was just pretend, to which Lee replied, “Okay, Spider-Friend.” + Stan Lee can be seen looking to his left or right repeatedly while talking with Brodie. This is so he can see his cue cards + When Rene (Shannen Doherty) runs to tell Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) that Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) are being arrested, Ethan Suplee (Willam) says, “Brenda?” – a joke reference to Doherty’s character on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). The exchange wasn’t in the script, but rather, Suplee was told to say this by Smith before the scene was shot, and so was Doherty. However, Suplee wasn’t told that she would respond, so his reaction is genuine. + Silent Bob has only one line in the entire movie, consisting of: “Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things.” He had an additional line in the extended version, which was “There was never anything good to say before.”
Released: October 20, 1995
Directed By: Kevin Smith
Screenplay By: Kevin Smith
Music By: Ira Newborn
Stars: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Priscilla Barnes, Michael Rooker, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes
Plot: Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Tagline: Superhero Anatomy! Topless Fortune Telling! Bunny Bashing! And More!
How did this movie do Budget: $6 Million Box Office: $2 Million
Extended Scenes found in the collectors edition: * The extended cut contains over 30 minutes of additional footage and subplots. * An alternate opening scene, in which Mr. Svenning hosts a Ball for the Governor of New Jersey (played by Elizabeth Ashley). In this scene, T.S. (dressed as a colonial musketman), accidentally gets his musket tangled up in Brandi’s hair, then accidentally shoots at the Governor on the roof of a school, which ends up costing Mr. Svenning his reputation as well as a big pay raise. This explains the reason why Svenning shows an intense dislike for T.S. and why Brandi is so intent on breaking up with him. This scene also makes no mention of Julie Dwyer’s death, as the theatrical cut did. (That cut subplot was referenced in the final cut of the movie, where the TV execs mention to Svenning that they do not want a repeat of the Governor’s Ball). * A shot that shows the Quick Stop from Clerks. * A new subplot of Brodie showing intentions of wanting to be on television, which explains his surprised look during his appearance on Truth or Date. * An extended rant from Mr. Svenning, a result of T.S. letting it slip that he intended to propose to Brandi. * The scene where Mr. Svenning meets with Brodie before he has both Brodie and T.S. removed by LaFours has several restored lines and ends with more finger- and hand-licking of the melty pretzel chocolate by Mr. Svenning after the boys are removed. * A scene after Truth or Date in which Mr. Svenning demands to have T.S. and Brodie arrested, but instead he is the one who is arrested. It turns out that since Svenning was the producer of the show, he faces multiple FCC fines for Brodie’s antics. * An extended “Where are they now?” ending sequence, in which Mr. Svenning is shown at his job at the network as a janitor (along with his production assistant, still wearing his headset), and Shannon Hamilton is shown screaming after his rape in prison. * A scene that showed Tricia flirting and having sex with LaFours in order to distract him from catching Jay and Silent Bob. This explains the final segment in the ‘where are they now’ ending sequence, showing LaFours kissing Tricia during the book signing.
News on the sequel as of 6/17/2022: * On March 13, 2015, Kevin Smith confirmed that Mallrats 2 was being written and was slated to begin shooting in summer 2016. * In January 2020, Smith announced that development on a Mallrats sequel film has started up again, under a new title Twilight of the Mallrats. * On a recent Fan Club Q&A, Kevin Smith said there were three paths to getting the movie done. + First was through Universal, but they are currently focused on Fast and Furious sized movies and the folks there always forget they even own Mallrats. + Second, there is a Universal Video division. As of right now the film they believe will cost in the 7 – 8 million range to get done. Universal Video has said they can film anything he wants but will have to deal with a 5 Million cap. So right now that seems to be up in the air. + Third possibility with Peacock (which is owned by Universal). Kevin has stated that maybe after Clerks 3 they will pitch the Mallrats movie or 6 episode mini-series as a Peacock production.
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