In a new interview with Slashfilm, actor Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers, the forthcoming Barbarian) reveals that he was recently contacted by his Tusk director, Kevin Smith, gauging his interest on making a sequel to that film.
Long tells the site:
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 … 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.’
Now, if you’ve ever seen Tusk, you’re probably wondering how in the hell a sequel might work: by the end of Smith’s film, Long’s character has been fully transformed into a Walrus (that’s him at the top of the page, on the right), the madman who made it happen, Howard (Michael Parkes), is very much dead, and it appears our hero will be doomed to live out the rest of his miserable life in captivity. Where do you go from there?
Well, back in 2020, Smith himself offered up the following pitch while speaking to Twitch:
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.
Guess that Walrus surgery wasn’t quite as irreversible as we thought. What would Wallace even look like now? The mind reels.
Anyway, this should all be taken with a grain of salt until something official’s announced, but in the meantime … it’s undeniably fun to imagine what this would look like in action, right? We think so, and we’ll keep you updated as further information rolls in.
