Kevin Smith Says He's Making a Sequel toDogma— and Expect to See Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Return!

Mar. 15, 2025

Kevin Smith in Los Angeles on March 27, 2023; Matt Damon and Ben Affleck inDogma(1999).Photo:Unique Nicole/WireImage; Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock

Unique Nicole/WireImage; Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock

Dogmais getting a second act!

Kevin Smithconfirmed a sequel to his 1999 religious satirical comedy is in the works during Vulture Festival on Sunday, Nov. 17, perDeadline.

And not only that, but original starsBen AffleckandMatt Damonare expected to return. As Smith, 54, joked during the event, the two still owe him forhelping bringtheirAcademy Award-winning 1997 filmGood Will Huntingto fruition.

“I have been able to hold that over both their heads for 25 f—ing years, which is why they keep showing up in all [my] movies,” he quipped, referring to Affleck, 52, and Damon, 54, leaving him out of their Oscar andGolden Globesspeeches, perDeadline.

“Expect a cameo from them — more than a f—ing cameo,” Smith added. “The only way we get aDogmasequel made is if they’re there. So count on those guys being there.”

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Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith at the Cannes Film Festival premiere ofDogmain May 1999.Neil Munns - PA Images/PA Images/Getty

Neil Munns - PA Images/PA Images/Getty

“Kevin savedGood Will Hunting,” Damon previously toldEntertainment Weeklyof Smith, who helped convince the studio to cast Damon and Affleck in the film.

He continued, “We were dead in the water. And we would’ve lost it. It would’ve been made with other people in it, and we’d still be really angry I’m sure.”

“We would have been the writers, but we wouldn’t have been the actors,” Affleck added at the time. “And the whole thing was we wanted to be actors. And he got it to [executive producer] Jon Gordon and got people to believe in it.”

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Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith inDogma(1999).Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock

Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock

Dogmaisn’t the only movie of Smith’s with a follow-up in the works. He revealed in April 2020 thathe’d finished writing a sequelto 1995’sMallrats, during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine.

He explainedon Instagram, “25 years after the original, Brodie Bruce will be back for an unnecessary sequel set against the Mallpocalypse! Rene, Willam, Gwen, Brandy, T.S., Trish, Mr. Svenning, LaFours and the rebooted@jayandsilentbobare the returning ‘Rats in an Askewniverse imagining about what happens when the sidewalk sales end, and ‘happily ever after’ is easier to say than live!”

Smith added that whileJay and Silent Bobis some of his “favorite conceptual comedy” that he’s “ever written,” the script forTwilight of the Mallratsis “silly, sentimental and sweet.”

“At 98 pages, the story moves like a brakeless bullet train!” he wrote.

source: people.com