Kevin Smith says he has a script mapped out for Tusk 2

August 14th 2020, 11:21am

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

I don't see this ever really happening but if the stars align, writer and director Kevin Smith says he has a script mapped out for a sequel to his 2014 horror/comedy, TUSK.

Smith went into his idea for TUSK 2 during a recent Jay and Silent Bob: What's in the Box live stream. The subject of the film came up and that's when he revealed that he's got an idea on the backburner.

"I'm shocked we got away with Tusk but I'll be honest with you: I do have a story for Tusk 2. The great Michael Parks, who played Howard Howe, the man who turns Wallace into a Walrus, sadly passed away a couple of years ago…But, in the ending of Tusk, if I wanted to be a commercial filmmaker which apparently I've never wanted to be, I would have ended the film when De La Pointe comes in and raises his shotgun and you'd just hear the walrus scream and that would be the end. There's a version of Tusk 2 that you do where you cut to the present, and somebody else gets sucked into the spider's web. The house, you hear stories, and when you come to the house, the new Howard Howe is Wallace, who has gotten out of the walrus trappings and stuff and is obviously disturbed. By his whole ordeal and is now doing it to others. So there's a way to do Tusk 2 where Justin becomes Michael Parks's character…So yea, that's possible. Tusk 2 is possible."

TUSK followed a U.S. podcaster named Wallace (Justin Long) who treks to the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) with an extraordinary past. Wallace eventually learns that the man has a dark secret involving a walrus. The film was a departure from Smith's View Askewniverse which includes movies like CLERKS and CHASING AMY. The end result was met with mixed reviews from critics and a muted box office gross of just $1.8 million. The lack of commercial success makes a sequel seem impossible but who knows these days. I've been surprised before when certain movies get sequels.

Would YOU want to see a sequel to TUSK?