NEW YORK, June 5 (UPI) -- Actor and filmmaker Kevin Smith says he was so energized and inspired by a "beautifully sentimental" experience screening Dogma in the "classics" section of the Cannes Film Festival that he is determined to go back there in a few years with a sequel to it.
Dogma first screened at the prestigious festival in 1999. Smith also showed Clerks there in 1994 and Clerks 2 in 2006.
"I stopped submitting movies to Cannes. They didn't seem like Cannes-worthy movies, in my personal estimation. So, there I'm walking the Croisette and I'm like: 'Why do you think you're done? It doesn't mean you can't come back here with a Cannes-worthy movie. You just have to [expletive] try,'" the writer-director told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"So, it was the 78th edition this year and I'm going to give it a shot, so, hopefully, by the 80th or 81st, I want to return with the Dogma sequel, which I've been writing."
DOGMA: The Resurrection Tour! See it with me followed by a Q&A! Get tickets at https://t.co/6siQ9ugRIc In American theaters everywhere JUNE 5th! Get tickets at https://t.co/UpiLGVukWC pic.twitter.com/6pxFj8yAF1— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) April 28, 2025
