One thing is for sure, Kevin Smith is doing whatever the fuck he wants. And that’s pretty cool. And if financiers want to throw money at him to torture his fans, that’s their decision, not mine.
But, hey, we want more original films, right? The good news is that Smith’s Yoga Hosers (read our review) is getting a much better reception than Tusk.
But the podcast from hell (that inspired Tusk) continues forth with Moose Jaws, Smith’s final film in his planned trilogy spoofing logic and reasoning.
Tusk sent Justin Long into the Canadian outback where Michael Parks kidnapped him and surgically transformed him into a walrus. Within the film, Long’s character enters a convenience store where he meets two clerks — played by Smith’s and Depp’s daughters, Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp. Their characters have been spun off into Yoga Hosers, which premiered this past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.
But it all comes full circle in Moose Jaws, which is about a giant, man-eating moose terrorizing a summer camp in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Smith spoke about the film during a Sundance panel hosted by Deadline where he revealed many cast members, which include Harley Morenstein as a camp counselor, Tusk‘s Genesis Rodriguez as Ally Leon, Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp returns as the Colleens, with Johnny Depp playing Guy Lapointe.
The biggest surprise, though is that Jason Mewes and Smith are going to star as Jay and Silent Bob, which will be their first on-screen appearance since Clerks II.
But here’s where is all comes together. Smith says in the below video that Justin Long will be brought in to fight the killer moose…as his creepy, haunting and nerve-racking walrus form.
While it will stick to the beats of Jaws, the third act will take cues from Godzilla, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, and Return of the Jedi.
While I hate Smith’s Tusk, I am curious to see Yoga Hosers. He’s tonally all over the place and seems incapable of zeroing in on anything anymore, which make his films a complete crapshoot. Again, at least Smith is doing what makes him happy and we can’t shame him for that. For me, I just want to be entertained…and the idea of a walrus-human hybrid battling a monster moose sounds right up my alley. I just don’t ever want to be tortured by anything as cinematically poison as Tusk was.