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Kevin Smith Shares Why He Hopes Sarah Michelle Gellar Would Join ‘Mallrats 2’

Kevin Smith gave the latest on 'Mallrats 2' the long-awaited sequel to the 1995 cult film Mallrats, which starred  Shannen Doherty, who died in July.

When discussing the potential sequel — that has been in stuck in limbo for years — during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Smith said that after Doherty’s death in July following a battle with cancer, he considered walking away from the project all together. He then explained that over the last month, there has been “weird glimmers of conversations and hope” surrounding the Mallrats followup, but added, “I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but it suddenly seems like there could be a path to victory, so to speak.” Elsewhere in the interview, Smith read his final text exchange with Doherty: “She said, ‘Why don’t you and Jason [Lee] and me go meet at Universal?’ And I said, ‘We totally can.’ And she said, ‘Let’s do it.

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