True North trilogy
The True North trilogy is a series of horror comedy films written and directed by Kevin Smith. It consists of the films Tusk, Yoga Hosers, and the in-development Moose Jaws.
Films
Tusk is based on a story from Kevin Smith's SModcast podcast. It stars Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Johnny Depp and Genesis Rodriguez. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, before it was released on September 19, 2014, by A24.Yoga Hosers is a spin-off of Tusk. It stars Johnny Depp, alongside his daughter Lily-Rose Depp and Smith's daughter Harley Quinn Smith. Production began in August 2014. The film premiered at a midnight screening during the Sundance Film Festival. Invincible Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film, and released it on September 2, 2016.
The proposed third film in the trilogy, Moose Jaws, has been described by Smith as "just Jaws with a moose." In June 2015, Harley Morenstein confirmed that he would be the lead in the film, following appearances in the other two offerings, and Smith said that his daughter and Lily-Rose Depp would reprise their roles from Yoga Hosers. In January 2016, Smith confirmed that both Jay and Silent Bob would appear in Moose Jaws, thus setting the entire trilogy in the View Askewniverse, but in June 2020, he said that he had written the two characters out of the script. In 2017, Smith said that Johnny Depp would reprise his role as Guy LaPointe. In December 2022, Smith announced that Lionsgate had agreed to finance five new movies to be made by him, including Moose Jaws.