Super Troopers 2 Being Developed Now
This morning I had the pleasure of interviewing Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, and Erik Stolhanske — four of the five members of Broken Lizard, the guys behind Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest. The bulk of the interview was devoted to their newest comedy, The Slammin’ Salmon, which opens on December 11th, so expect the full interview in a couple of weeks. I did, however, manage to get some solid details about the much-rumored Super Troopers 2.
“We have the financing,” Chandrasekhar said. “So we’re going to try to make a deal with Fox.”
“We’re like, three drafts into it,” Lemme added. “It’s funny, because we have an independent financier — we have a lot of independent financiers — who are like, ‘Give us that fucking movie.’ And we’re like, ‘We will, we will but we have to go through a studio first.’ But it’s a great thing to go to a studio and say, ‘We have the money.’”
The guys also revealed that the movie, which will take place where the first one left off, will have a role for Captain O’Hagan, the character played by Brian Cox in the original — and that Cox would be back.
“Oh, yeah. Yep. He’ll be in it,” Chandrasekhar said. “I mean, he loved [the first one]. He loved it.”
“Yeah, I ran into him last year and he said he’s approached more about Super Troopers than any of the films he’s done,” Soter added. “Which is amazing, because you look now at some of the films he’s done — it’s pretty cool.”
“He wanted to play in a movie where he could be like Jerry Lewis, because he’s always been a big Jerry Lewis fan,” Chandrasekhar said.
So there you have it. They also talked about a few of their other upcoming projects, including Pot Quest — they can’t make a straightforward Potfest because it’ll be at a different studio — and Rogue Scholars, about a group of college professors who go to war with a campus club, so keep an eye out for the full interview.
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