In the course of the last couple of days, filmmaker Kevin Smith has shared both script pages and footage from the “Snyder Cut” of Clerks – that being the early festival cut, which ends with Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) being shot and killed by a robber at the Quick Stop. In previous interviews, Smith has said that he removed the sequence in part because it didn’t feel like it fit in Clerks. He has suggested that it was inspired by the tone and approach of other indie films popular in the early ’90s, but ultimately decided against the downer ending – even if Dante himself argued earlier in the film “that’s what life is – a series of down endings.”
This is the shooting draft of CLERKS. I was checking it for references as I write the new CLERKS III and I found this scene in which Jay inadvertently gets Dante killed. John is the guy who shoots Dante and robs the register in the “Snyder Cut” of Clerks: https://t.co/WubnHOtuiY pic.twitter.com/Bh400pVhcj
