Editing Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (section)

==Production==
The film's plot was heavily inspired by ''[[Chasing Dogma]]'', a comic book miniseries that Smith wrote in 1998 and 1999 to explore events that happened in the Askewniverse between ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' and ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meisfjord |first1=Tom |title=The Entire Jay And Silent Bob Story Finally Explained |url=https://www.looper.com/160877/the-entire-jay-and-silent-bob-story-finally-explained/ |website=Looper |date=August 5, 2019 |access-date=28 March 2022}}</ref>

The film was originally titled ''View Askew 5'' and the title was changed to ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. Filming began on January 14, 2001, and ended on April 19, 2001. Filming took in place in New Jersey, and mostly in California.

On his podcast ''[[Jay & Silent Bob Get Old]]'', [[Kevin Smith]] explained at length about how much of a "headache" the film was to make, mostly owing to [[Jason Mewes]]'s drug and alcohol abuse turning him into a "ticking time bomb", which threatened to shut the project down at any moment. During pre-production, Mewes would have constant mood swings due to heroin withdrawal, to the point that Smith actually threw him out of his car on their way to the set one day. Mewes would compensate for his lack of drugs by drinking heavily after every day of shooting and nearly got into a fist fight with producer [[Scott Mosier]] when he had to come back one night for a re-shoot while drunk. When filming wrapped, Smith told Mewes point-blank to get sober or he would never speak to him again.