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Archive for January 26th, 2001
First Pics From “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back”!
- Hey folks…There’s some SPOILERS ahead, minor ones, but still, spoilers all the same. Since as you know, many fans had the opportunity to be extras at the El Rey theater yesterday, naturally, some reports were going to come in. Naturally, we got a ton of them here and Aint It Cool News even posted some pics from the event, which include a certain film that’s playing on the marquee. We’ve got those shots, and a summary of what we learned about the production. Naturally, we don’t want to ruin any of the film for those of you that want to go in cold (as hard as that is these days), so we’re going to hide as much as we can. We’ve blurred the thumbnails above, but click them if you’d like to take a look. Also, swipe the text below if you’d like to read the information learned about the film. Bear in mind these are not major spoilers, just some small tidbits:
- The film on the marquee is a “Bluntman & Chronic” movie, which is apparently the film within the film. In this film, Jason Biggs plays the “Bluntman” character and James Van Der Beek plays “Chronic”.
- The AICN scooper saw a scene being filmed with Jason Lee and Dwight Ewell walking out of the theater and fighting. We’re not sure which charaters Lee and Ewell were playing at the time, but it’s likely that we’re seeing Banky & Hooper there.
And finally, this isn’t much of a spoiler, just a confirmation, but we hear that Joey Lauren Adams DOES reprise her role as Alyssa Jones! We’ll have more from the set as it becomes available.
EXCLUSIVE! J&SBSB On-Set Report & Character Info!
- Well, this scoop may be even bigger than the pics above…Again, no major spoilers here except for details of who was involved in the scene that was shot yesterday and which characters play what…So if you’re curious about where Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrel, and others fall into place in the flick, swipe the text below. Mike’s done a great job of summarizing what he saw on set, and it sounds like extras were in for a treat yesterday, as practically every major player was on the scene to appear outside the movie theater (we’re guessing that a lot of the previous characters from the other films appear in this scene and possibly no others). One of the scenes described here is apparently the end of the film, so it could also be considered a SPOILER, but it doesn’t give too much away, at least from our standpoint, having not read the script. As always, our standpoint on this is READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you don’t want to know anything about the film, just move on. If you don’t care if some details are spoiled, swoop away:
Basically, the brief plot synopsis given to us was this: “Bluntman and Chronic” – the movie is to be made, starring James Van der Beek as Jay and Jason Biggs as Silent Bob. (You’ve got to see the posters for this, absolutely hysterical!) Meanwhile, the real Jay and Silent Bob find out on the internet that people are dissing them, calling them “chumps”… so they get pissed off, and go to Hollywood to attempt to destroy the movie – hence their revenge.
The shoot today consisted of two scenes. One was inside a small concert hall where Morris Day and the Time were performing (In case you didn’t know, Morris was Prince’s uh, nemesis in Purple Rain), and Jay and Silent Bob are in attendance, along with Will Ferrall who plays an FBI agent, and Shannon Elizabeth who is a captured convict, (her prison uniform number is 3737), also next to them was an orangutan. Jay and Silent Bob jump on the stage to join them, this is the end scene of the movie.
The other scene was in front of the world premiere of Bluntman and Chronic, and all the familiar faces are leaving in pairs discussing the film – Dante and Randall, Will Ferrall and Shannon Elizabeth , Steve-Dave and Walt, Trish (the dish) Jones, and Alyssa Jones (Yes, Joey Lauren Adams reprises this role), and Banky and Hooper. In front of the movie theatre are posters for fictional movies (Good Will Hunting 2 – “How do you like THEM apples?”, Snootchies, Bussing (In Clerks font), See if you can see… THE SAILBOAT…and the hysterical Bluntman and Chronic poster of Van der Beek and Biggs)
I got a chance to share a couple laughs with Jay, nodded and said hi to Kev (He was always busy – surprise – but he took time out to sign autographs for fans.), got to talking to one of the members of “The Time”, Jerome the percussionist, was very cool… and was thrilled to spent about 10 minutes just talking to Brian O’Halloran – he was very cool, and we just shot the shit about everything. Apparently, this was his only scene, he is to go back to Red Bank and shoot Quick Stop, which he described as a “Fucking freezer”. Brian was most friendly, what a super guy. Saw Jason Lee, but he was unapproachable, pretty much, and he got the most applause when he jumped on the stage to say hello to the crowd. Jason was dressed as Banky, and looked perfect. Saw Randall during rehearsal for his scene, but couldn’t talk to him. Also saw Joey as we were leaving, and she looked gorgeous as ever. Caught a glimpse of Hooper but we were too far away to say anything to him.
Surprise Celeb spotting, Ali Larter (The Whipped Cream Bikini chick from Varsity Blues), we spotted her talking to Jay as we were walking in. Can’t make any speculation as to whether she is in the film or not… BUT, upstairs in the balcony area of the theatre was an interview set up, We saw her being interviewed along with Jason Lee, Mewes, Kev, etc… so we can only continue to speculate…
Very interesting stuff there! We’ll continue our extensive coverage of the filming here and over at our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back site! Stay tuned as more exciting developments take place.