We’re now eight years removed from Kevin Smith‘s Tusk, one of the wildest horror movies to make its way into theaters in the past ten years. Smith took a big swing with his second horror movie, turning Justin Long into a human-walrus hybrid and going to bizarre places even the most bizarre horror movies rarely go. Nearly a decade later, is Tusk 2 coming to life?!
Kevin Smith has been teasing Tusk 2 on and off over the years, but this latest tease comes from Tusk star Justin Long. According to Long, Smith is developing a Tusk sequel movie!
“You’ll be happy to hear, Kevin [Smith] just announ– I mean, I guess they’re talking about it. They’re doing ‘Tusk 2,’ I think,” Long tells Slash Film this week.
Long continues, “He texted us all the other day, Haley [Joel Osment] and Genesis [Rodriguez], and he told us that he wanted to do it, and I thought it was a joke. And then I realized he was being serious. And then one of the [other] interviewers said, ‘Yeah, he said the same to me.'”
Again, this isn’t the first time Tusk 2 has come up in conversation. It was back in August 2020 that Smith originally teased a follow-up movie while chatting with fans on Twitch.
Smith said at the time, “I’m shocked we got away with Tusk one but I’ll be honest with you, I do have a story for Tusk 2. The great Michael Parks, who played Howard Howe, the guy who turns Wallace into a Walrus, sadly passed away a couple of years ago. Amazing actor that I got to work with twice. 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 Guy La Pointe comes in and raises his shotgun and you’d just hear the walrus [scream] and we cut to black.”
He continued, “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 get 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 entire ordeal and is now doing it to others. So there’s a way to do Tusk 2 where Justin becomes Michael Parks’s character. Wallace becomes, sort of, the new Howard Howe. So yea, that’s possible. Tusk 2 is possible.”
