For years, Kevin Smith has been teasing the long-awaited return to the View Askewniverse. If you’re like many a film fan, chances are these films were required viewing as a part of your early film diet. With films like Clerks and Chasing Amy, it helped sate the art house lover in us all, and with others like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, it proved that nothing needed to be taken seriously in life. Back in 2005, Smith closed the book on this universe with Clerks II, moving on to the next chapter of his life.

It’s been over a decade, and in the time since, Smith has failed to bring Clerks III and Mallrats 2 to the big screen, but there has been one revival that has seemingly been successful: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, a film which will reunite everyone’s favorite stoner duo as they attempt to thwart the rebooting of their franchise.

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Smith took to Twitter on New Year’s Day to give us a little tease with a .gif showing off him as Silent Bob holding a red balloon very reminiscent of IT.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! May you accomplish all the things you dream of doing (unless you dream of hurting people)! 2018 was the year that almost killed me, but 2019 will be the year of the REBOOT! pic.twitter.com/IRlRcgmArY

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) January 1, 2019

Whether or not this is just a photoshoot is hard to tell at this point, as the film is still in pre-production, as Smith made clear in a tweet late last night.

Spent the first day of 2019 having a #JayAndSilentBobReboot pre-pre-production meeting at our holiday-roomy @WeWork office! @JayMewes took this pic of me and @JordanMonsanto to both mark the moment and to document that we were the only dopes in Hollywood working on the holiday. pic.twitter.com/xTNrpN6OF6

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) January 2, 2019

In the tweet, you can see Smith and Smodcast producer Jordan Monsanto commemorating what Smith calls “pre-pre-production.” From the looks of it, it was just a meeting, but with production starting very soon, you know it won’t be long before it begins pre-production proper.

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