Kevin Smith directing a horror film about a man in a walrus costume

[MenacingMonk]

Clerks 2 was his last best one.

Cop Out was funny, but not funnier than C2. He did do CO, right?

 

[Bud Bundy]

if sharknado is embraced why not this idea?

 

[up in here]

Could be dope. The first half of Red State was scary as hell for me

 

[The Antagonist]

Clerks 2 it was his last best one.

Cop Out was funny, but not funnier than C2. He did do CO, right?

Yeah, but he only directed it. I liked Cop Out as well, for what it was. Red State was okay to me, but it really didn't have the things I enjoy about his other movies.

 

[prophecypro]

Yoooooo he's really gonna make this?! I was listening to his Smodcast episode when him and Mosier were talking about it and they way they brainstormed the idea if an actual movie was to happy was funny and pretty great actually lol

If he actually goes through with the final battle scene in black and white like they joke it would be piff.

I'm all for it

 

[yseJ]

clerks 2 was his last movie I thoroughly enjoyed,

but kevin smith is a beast just off clerks and dogma, people on here trashing him

 

[Born2BKing]

name the last dope kevin smith movie.

I enjoyed Zack and Miri myself.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[Spaceman Piff]

dudes are quick to complain about the lack of originality in hollywood too..

this is what the search for original ideas looks like.

it looks wack as fukk

but kevin smith has always done his own shyt.. the synopsis for most of his movies sound retarded. but i wanna say he's been right more than wrong. but i haven't seen red state and i'm probably like 1 of 10 people in the world that liked jersey girl.

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

So Kevin Smith is playing himself?

 

[Conz]

Kev Smith the God. local hero

 

[RisAri0]

So I guess he's taking the based on a true story horror movie route. That seems to be the current formula in Hollywood now that can sell.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

One of the most overrated hacks there is. Awful idea.

 

[StraxStrax]

Kevin Smith has worked with some pretty big-name actors in his time, and it looks like he’s booked the A-list-iest of them all for his next film Tusk. According to star Justin Long, Johnny Depp has signed on for a supporting character in the offbeat monster movie.

Tusk will be Depp’s first movie with Smith, and it seems like the perfect place to launch their professional relationship. Depp clearly has a taste for the bizarre, and what’s more bizarre than a tale about a guy trying to create a walrus-man hybrid? Hit the jump for details on Depp’s character.

Chatting with Long Island Newsday (via TheWrap), Long stated that he was currently working on Tusk and added, “Johnny Depp is in that one.” Although Long didn’t say what role Depp would be playing, all signs point to French-Canadian investigator Guy Lapointe.

Tusk, which was also written by Smith, centers around an older man (Michael Parks) who’s unhealthily obsessed with walruses. Long plays a journalist who approaches him for a story, and Genesis Rodriguez and Haley Joel Osment play Long’s friends. Depp’s Lapointe (assuming that is indeed his character) is the investigator charged with looking into the strange events that unfold.

Smith previously hinted on Twitter that he’d found a major movie star to play Lapointe, calling the casting “the highlight of my career.” Separately, Smith mentioned that the role was a small but important one requiring only two days of shooting.

Additionally, distributor A24 has referred to the actor playing Lapointe as “a friend” of Smith’s. While we aren’t privy to the details of Smith’s personal life, fan site Johnny Depp Zone (via AICN) points out that Smith and Depp are connected personally. They’ve worked together on charity events and their daughters were schoolmates. Here at /Film we’d heard rumblings a while ago that Depp was the actor Smith was alluding to, but had no confirmation.

Depp will next be seen in Transcendence, directed by Wally Pfister. Beyond that, he’s already wrapped London Fields, Mortdecai, and Into the Woods, and is preparing to shoot Black Mass and Through the Looking Glass.

Tusk is expected to open this fall.

http://www.slashfilm.com/johnny-depp-tusk/

 

[Conz]

my brother did audio work on comic book men, ive known this for 4 months... so im basically a hollywood insider