Kevin Smith Has Ideas for Dogma 2, But Don’t Get Too Excited Yet

This past play astatine the Vulture Festival successful Los Angeles, filmmaker, podcaster, and pop-culture stalwart Kevin Smith was connected manus for a screening of Dogma, his 1999 spiritual satire astir a brace of fallen angels (played by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, conscionable 2 years post-Good Will Hunting) determined to get backmost into heaven, adjacent if it means bringing astir the apocalypse.

It was arguable astatine the time—and past became tangled successful rights issues for decades, making it hard to surface and stream. But with each that present resolved, just successful clip for the movie’s 25th anniversary, Smith is hinting that maybe, possibly, a sequel is successful the works?

Deadline reported that astatine the peculiar Dogma screening, the writer-director said he’s got ideas to proceed the story. “I recovered a mode in,” helium teased, aft noting helium anticipates diehard fans of the movie won’t privation him to “ruin” the original.

He besides said helium knows immoderate Dogma follow-up worthy its heavenly feathers indispensable see the information of its big-name leads, who helium said inactive beryllium him a favour aft helium helped them with Good Will Hunting each those years ago. “I person been capable to clasp that implicit some their heads for 25 fucking years, which is wherefore they support showing up successful each the movies,” Smith said astatine the festival. “Expect a cameo from them—more than a fucking cameo. The lone mode we get a Dogma sequel made is if they’re there. So number connected those guys being there.”

Later, connected societal media, Smith shared the Deadline post—but added immoderate further clarifications:

To beryllium fair, I said I started penning a sequel successful my caput connected Thursday night. So a Dogma sequel publication is yet happening… but that doesn’t mean a movie is getting made necessarily. And portion I program to see Bartleby and Loki, I’ve not spoken to Ben oregon Matt astir it yet.⛪️ https://t.co/AuNr2farsp

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) November 18, 2024

“To beryllium fair, I said I started penning a sequel successful my caput connected Thursday night,” Smith wrote. “So a Dogma sequel publication is yet happening… but that doesn’t mean a movie is getting made necessarily. And portion I program to see [the characters] Bartleby and Loki, I’ve not spoken to Ben oregon Matt astir it yet.”

In October, speaking astir Dogma‘s rights being freed up truthful the movie tin beryllium shown again, Smith hinted that helium had ideas astir returning to the movie’s satellite somehow: “Maybe, astatine this point, sequels, TV versions, successful presumption of extending the story. Something we could ne'er bash before… So exciting, man. And each those radical who worked successful it are inactive viable.”

In different words, Dogma 2 could happen—it’s intelligibly a task Smith has a batch of enthusiasm about—but if it takes the signifier of a diagnostic film, it won’t beryllium happening close away. And it sounds similar Affleck and Damon astir apt recovered retired astir it done the Deadline article, aforesaid arsenic us. What are your thoughts connected a imaginable Dogma sequel?

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