As a director Kevin Smith has distanced himself from the comedy movies he’s best known for, and has instead embraced much smaller budget independent projects as of late.

After his first indie effort, the very un-Smith-like horror flick Red State, he took some time off from features to focus on various other things he has going on. But lately he’s been quite busy. Smith just finished a second indie horror titled Tusk, which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he’s already moving into his next movie, titled Yoga Hosers.

Now comes word that Johnny Depp will be appearing in the movie, which stars his daughter Lily-Rose Depp and Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith.

In January of last year Jon Schnepp, a Los Angeles-based director of the Adult Swim series Metalocalypse and The Venture Brothers as well as a contributor to the horror anthology feature The ABCs of Death, created a Kickstarter page to raise funds for a documentary he hoped to make about an aborted attempt to reboot the Superman franchise in the late 1990s. After raising the budget necessary to proceed Schnepp managed to secure interviews with several of the principal players and now The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? is very much a reality.

Schnepp has released the first trailer for the film, which you watch here below.

The first official trailer for the upcoming horror flick from writer and director Kevin Smith, titled Tusk, is here for all to see.

The movie follows a man (Justin Long) who goes missing in the backwoods of Canada while interviewing a mysterious gentleman (Michael Park) with promises of tales of the sea, leading his best friend and podcast co-host (Haley Joel Osment) to team up with his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) to try to find him.

You can watch the first trailer for Tusk below.

Kevin Smith is probably the closest person to the production of the now officially titled Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, without actually being involved in it, thanks in part to his friendship with Ben Affleck. He was one of the few who got to see the new Batsuit before Zack Snyder tweeted it out to the public a few weeks ago. In fact he was the first to confirm that the suit was black and grey, which is a nod to the Batsuit that we saw in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns.

But even though he dropped that tidbit a few months back, Smith is dropping even more info about the film’s universe. He hints that Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice actually sets up not one, not two, not three or four, but a five or maybe six-part Justice League film. Hit the jump to read what he said.

The Kevin Smith-directed horror movie Tusk is set to release later this year, and the experience making that movie went so well that he’s decided to hang on to his cast for his next project, titled Anti-Claus.

According to reports out of the Cannes Film Festival, Tusk stars Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, and Michael Parks will all continue hanging out with Smith for Anti-Claus, a Christmas horror movie following the mythical Krampus.