Kevin Smith Offers Tusk Update, Will Miss Sundance

Smith informed his fans that Tusk will not be making the Sundance 2014 deadline as he originally intended.  Instead, he’ll be sharing a trailer for the film before one of the festival’s midnight films.  Why?  He’s opted to take his time with the film and not rush it through post-production.  He’s enlisted Chris Drake to do the score; Drake has been doing a ton of stellar work for Warner Bros./DC and recently did the score for The Dark Knight Returns animated films.

The director went on to enthuse…

TUSK is the best flick with which I’ve ever been involved. Holy shit, did Michael Parks and Justin Long CRUSH it! This flick is like porn if you like to watch actors emote and say fucked up things about shipwrecks and sharks and Ernest Hemmingway and walruses and terror and madness. And that’s all long before we show you what a human-walrus looks like. In order for TUSK to work at all, the whole flick depended on the cat-and-mouse relationship of Parks’ and Long’s characters. I was looking for an 8 on the excellence scale; they both turned in 100’s. Career best work from both, and all I did was point a camera at it and smile the whole time. 

Tusk finds Long playing a podcaster who interviews an old, reclusive seafarer who has sinister plans for his interviewer.  For the full update from Smith, head to Facebook here.