SUPER TROOPERS Sequel Coming Soon?
by Ryan Laster ~ April 16th, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized.
Comingsoon.net recently taked to Paul Stoter about Broken Lizard and their possibly of doing SUPER TROOPERS 2. Stoter has been hard at work for the past couple of years and plans on working even more. Warner Bros. have asked Broken Lizard to keep on writing for them, but they are unsure whether or not they want to keep working with them right now.
“I think because of the year [Warner Bros.] had last year, we’re not able to just say ‘Alright, can you make another Broken Lizard movie like Beerfest?’ I think the movie did reasonably well in theatres and is really kicking ass on DVD so they’re very pleased. It’s put us in a situation where they love us, they want us to keep writing for them, to keep doing stuff, but we can’t just automatically set-up the next Broken Lizard movie with them. We’re having to be really creative like do we need to package us with some bigger star to get a movie made? We’re talking about a project that we star in with Johnny Knoxville, maybe that’s something a studio can feel a little bit better about it. ‘Cause we’re just still not to that point where we are a sure thing in terms of an investment of that kind of money.”
Stoter continued on about his relationship with WB and some projects they have recently finished. He then began discussing the possibility of doing a sequel to the 2001 cult hit, SUPER TROOPERS:
“I just finished a script that I want to direct next that’s actually a horror/thriller [called "Beware"] and Broken Lizard is producing, so we’re trying to package that. Other than that, we’re going to talk to Fox in a couple weeks about the ‘Super Troopers’ sequel so I’m curious to see if that’s going to happen.”
“Honestly, the plan was always that we were not going to do it. In a perfect world, Broken Lizard would make a bunch of big movies and not be… Up until fairly recently, we were fighting the perception with if we got recognized, people thought of us as ‘Hey, Super Troopers!’ not if you walk down the street and people point to you and say ‘Broken Lizard.’ It was a point of pride of let’s not go back to that well because we don’t want any further get ourselves locked into being thought of as the Super Troopers guys. It was nice, because I feel like over the last six months, we’ve turned a corner. I don’t know if it’s just that the DVD’s have caught up to us now. We’ve had ‘Puddle Cruiser’ out on DVD and that’s doing well, and ‘Beerfest’ is through the roof, so now there seems to be where people are regarding as ‘Hey, it’s Broken Lizard!’ or ‘Hey, it’s the Beerfest guys!’ Now that we feel like we’re not quite so in danger of being thought of as ‘Super Troopers’ we thought, ‘You know what? It’s such a fun movie, it’s such a fun environment and such great characters…’ We feel confident now about going back and we have enough great ideas where we’re like, ‘Yeah, we should make this movie.’”