Unlike the first “Clerks”, during the production of which nobody really knew we were making an honest-to-goodness film behind Quick Stop’s closed steel shutters at night, word’s out what we’re up to this time around. There are expectations – shit that I’ve spent my career trying to avoid, because expectations are hard to live up to. So rather than ostrich-it and pretend like we’re eight kids making a movie after hours at work, we’ve opted to go another way, and pull the curtain way-the-fuck back for anyone remotely interested to take a look at our goings-on. Good idea or not, we’re committed at this point.

Zak Knutson and Joey Figueroa, long-time co-conspirators of ours (Zak we met on “Strike Back” and Joey, his friend, joined us in post on “Jersey Girl”) got a budget approved by the Weinstein Company for a behind-the-scenes project that’s made up of two parts: weekly production pieces for the www.clerks2.com site, and a massive making-of documentary for the eventual DVD. Having worked closely with Phil Benson on the “Snowball Effect” doc on the “Clerks X” DVD, these guys know what they’re doing. Together with Webmaster Ming Chen and Trailer Maven Mattt Potter, they’ll be providing the curious with a relatively spoiler-free, inside look at what goes into making “Clerks 2”.

Initial response to the shorts seems to be good, so we’re off and running.