Not that Kevin Smith lavishes much as a director of film sagas (apart from ‘Clerks’ and its spin-offs, of course). Even so, it seems that he remains firm in his latest (and unusual) project: the director is interested in directing a sequel to ‘Tusk’his horror film in which a man is turned into a walrus.
Obey the walrus
‘Tusk’ is a 2014 film that was born as a result of a joke that Kevin Smith made on his podcast and that finally gave rise to one of the most disconcerting arguments of the filmmaker. In it, Justin Long played an arrogant podcaster kidnapped by a former Marine (Michael Parks) who ends up turning him into a walrus.
In an interview about ‘Barbarian’, his latest film, Justin Long confirmed that Kevin Smith is seriously considering making a sequel to ‘Tusk’ :
He texted us the other day, Haley (Osment) and Genesis (Rodriguez) and told us he wanted to do it. I thought it was a joke and then I realized that he was serious. Then one of the (other) interviewers said, “Yeah, he told me the same thing.”
The question is whether the project will go ahead or not because, beyond its cult status, the original film co-produced by A24 was not a success at the box office, precisely. With a budget of 3 million, it only grossed 1.8 in theaters and the truth is that a second part is not something that the market is crying out for right now.
Even so, the idea has been around Kevin Smith for some time: in 2020, he already shared through Twitch a possible synopsis for ‘Tusk 2’ (notice of ‘Tusk’ ending spoilers):
There’s a version of ‘Tusk 2’ where you jump into the present and someone else has fallen into the spider web. You hear stories about the house, and when you walk in, the new Howard Howe is Wallace, who has shed his walrus garb and is clearly disturbed by the ordeal and now doing it to others.
At the moment, both Smith and Long have ‘Clerks 3’ pending release, which hits theaters on September 13 in the US and in Spain we still have no definitive date.