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

"Expect a cameo from them — more than a f---ing cameo," Smith said of Damon and Affleck at Vulture Festival on Sunday, Nov. 17, per 'Deadline'

Dogma is getting a second act!

Kevin Smith confirmed a sequel to his 1999 religious satirical comedy is in the works during Vulture Festival on Sunday, Nov. 17, per Deadline.

And not only that, but original stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are expected to return. As Smith, 54, joked during the event, the two still owe him for helping bring their Academy Award-winning 1997 film Good Will Hunting to 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 and Golden Globes speeches, per Deadline.

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

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"Kevin saved Good Will Hunting," Damon previously told Entertainment Weekly of Smith, who helped convince the studio to cast Damon and Affleck in the film. "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."

Damon and Affleck lead Dogma as fallen angels Loki and Bartleby, respectively, trying to get to New Jersey and back into heaven, even if it destroys humanity.

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Dogma isn't the only movie of Smith's with a follow-up in the works. He revealed in April 2020 that he'd finished writing a sequel to 1995's Mallrats, during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine.

He explained on 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 @jayandsilentbob are 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 while Jay and Silent Bob is some of his "favorite conceptual comedy" that he's "ever written," the script for Twilight of the Mallrats is "silly, sentimental and sweet."

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