Behind the Scenes
Plot summary
Wallace Bryton and Teddy Craft host a podcast, The Not-See Party, on which they mock people caught in humiliating viral videos. Their newest subject is the Kill Bill Kid, who severed his leg with a katana, so Wallace flies to Manitoba to interview him. At the funeral he learns the man is dead. Unwilling to waste the trip, he stays another day looking for a different eccentric. In a bar restroom he finds a handbill promising a free room and interesting stories. Its owner is Howard Howe, an older man in a wheelchair who tells of a shipwreck and of a walrus named Mr. Tusk that pulled him from the water. Howe pours him tea and Wallace passes out.
Cast
- Douglas Banksas Kill Bill Kid
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tusk (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Smith let his Twitter followers decide whether the film got made, asking them to tweet "#WalrusYes" if they wanted the hypothetical turned into a film and "#WalrusNo" if they did not. A vast majority agreed it should be made.
- The advertisement that inspired the film was itself a prank, posted on Gumtree by Brighton poet and prankster Chris Parkinson. On hearing of the planned film he said he was a big fan of Smith and would love to be involved, and Smith hired him as an associate producer in November.
- Smith first considered Quentin Tarantino for the part of LaPointe after seeing his appearance in Django Unchained, but Tarantino said he had no interest in acting at the moment.
- Smith wrote the 80-page screenplay while waiting for Bob Weinstein's approval of his Clerks III submission package. It began life as The Walrus & the Carpenter before he cut the title to a single word, saying he knew what a movie about a walrus had to be called.
