Forget "Dukes of Hazzard 2" -- Is "Super Troopers 2" On Tap for Broken Lizard?
Even though last year's "Dukes of Hazzard" raked in a respectable $80 million at the box office, don't look for another go from the Broken Lizard crew. "Dukes" director Jay Chandrasekhar and fellow Lizard Kevin Heffernan told RT they're over it, and after this month's "Beerfest" they plan on turning their attention to more Broken Lizard projects, including "The Greek Road," "The Babymaker," and … "Super Troopers 2!"
A direct-to-video "Dukes of Hazzard" prequel is already being filmed without the involvement of the Broken Lizard guys, but they seem ok with that. "Beerfest" kicks off the first release from Warner Bros. in a three-year deal, and they've got a few more crazy scripts up their sleeves.

This month, the Broken Lizards compete in every drinking game known to man in "Beerfest"
"The Greek Road"
One such project is a completed script called "The Greek Road," which the Lizards (Heffernan, Chandrasekhar, and fellow members Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske) have finished co-writing. They are in talks with Warner Bros. to secure funding for the period pic, which is set in ancient Greece and would require a larger-than-normal budget for a Broken Lizard movie.
And what is the plot for this next pic? Heffernan explains, "The movie we really want to do next is called The Greek Road. It's set in ancient Greece, it's a comedy. The general idea is that I play a fellow by the name of Plato -- he is a freshman wrestling recruit at Athens University, and he's failing his freshmen seminar, Basic Thought."
"So they bring in this hotshot senior to tutor him. His name is…Socrates. So Socrates tutors him and they end up road tripping to the Olympics to wrestle. And then the gods try to stop them. It's a period piece. Steve is Socrates, and then Eric, Paul and Jay play Zeus, Poseidon and Hades who are trying to stop us from getting to the Olympics."
Chandrasekhar says "The Greek Road" will likely start filming in spring 2007; but first, he'd like to squeeze in another Broken Lizard production this fall:
"The Babymaker"
"I want to make a movie with Kevin called "The Babymaker," said Chandrasekhar. "He plays a former high school football star who's married and he and his wife want to have a kid, and they try for a year and they just can't have a kid. Sothey go to a doctor and the doctor says, "Your sperm is no good," and he goes, "Nah, trust me dude, the sperm's good." And [the doctor] says, "It's no good, I'm telling you it's no good," and he goes, "IT'S GOOD."
And so he eventually tells his wife that five years ago he donated 20 batches of sperm to a sperm bank, and they don't take it unless it's good. He did it because he needed a little extra money for his wife's ring. And she's furious; "You have other kids out there, you bought my ring with beat off money!" So he goes back to the sperm bank and says, I need my sperm back...And they say, well we only have one batch and we promised it to somebody. So then he goes and puts together a little team of his friends, and they go and try to do a sperm bank heist."
"Super Troopers 2"
But what of a sequel to the beloved cult hit, "Super Troopers?" Though fans have long been screaming for a sequel, reprising their Vermont State trooper characters is not on the immediate horizon for the five-some. However, they are considering the sequel in the future and have settled on a loose story -- it would be called "Super Troopers '76," and it will be a prequel in which they play the equally inept fathers of their "Super Troopers" characters.
"The joke is that we'll make it Super Troopers '76, set during the bicentennial," Chandrasekhar told RT. "We'll have a little shaggier hair and mustaches...we might do it, I don't know. That movie has sort of a special place in a lot of people's hearts, so all we can do is f*ck it up...So I don't know...I've been writing some little gags and I have a little file of "Super Troopers 2" gags, and we'll see if we turn that into a flick or not."
In the meantime, Broken Lizard's "Beerfest" sloshes into theaters August 25. Check out the trailer and Beer Olympics photos from the flick!
A direct-to-video "Dukes of Hazzard" prequel is already being filmed without the involvement of the Broken Lizard guys, but they seem ok with that. "Beerfest" kicks off the first release from Warner Bros. in a three-year deal, and they've got a few more crazy scripts up their sleeves.

This month, the Broken Lizards compete in every drinking game known to man in "Beerfest"
"The Greek Road"
One such project is a completed script called "The Greek Road," which the Lizards (Heffernan, Chandrasekhar, and fellow members Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske) have finished co-writing. They are in talks with Warner Bros. to secure funding for the period pic, which is set in ancient Greece and would require a larger-than-normal budget for a Broken Lizard movie.
And what is the plot for this next pic? Heffernan explains, "The movie we really want to do next is called The Greek Road. It's set in ancient Greece, it's a comedy. The general idea is that I play a fellow by the name of Plato -- he is a freshman wrestling recruit at Athens University, and he's failing his freshmen seminar, Basic Thought."
"So they bring in this hotshot senior to tutor him. His name is…Socrates. So Socrates tutors him and they end up road tripping to the Olympics to wrestle. And then the gods try to stop them. It's a period piece. Steve is Socrates, and then Eric, Paul and Jay play Zeus, Poseidon and Hades who are trying to stop us from getting to the Olympics."
Chandrasekhar says "The Greek Road" will likely start filming in spring 2007; but first, he'd like to squeeze in another Broken Lizard production this fall:
"The Babymaker"
"I want to make a movie with Kevin called "The Babymaker," said Chandrasekhar. "He plays a former high school football star who's married and he and his wife want to have a kid, and they try for a year and they just can't have a kid. Sothey go to a doctor and the doctor says, "Your sperm is no good," and he goes, "Nah, trust me dude, the sperm's good." And [the doctor] says, "It's no good, I'm telling you it's no good," and he goes, "IT'S GOOD."
And so he eventually tells his wife that five years ago he donated 20 batches of sperm to a sperm bank, and they don't take it unless it's good. He did it because he needed a little extra money for his wife's ring. And she's furious; "You have other kids out there, you bought my ring with beat off money!" So he goes back to the sperm bank and says, I need my sperm back...And they say, well we only have one batch and we promised it to somebody. So then he goes and puts together a little team of his friends, and they go and try to do a sperm bank heist."
"Super Troopers 2"
But what of a sequel to the beloved cult hit, "Super Troopers?" Though fans have long been screaming for a sequel, reprising their Vermont State trooper characters is not on the immediate horizon for the five-some. However, they are considering the sequel in the future and have settled on a loose story -- it would be called "Super Troopers '76," and it will be a prequel in which they play the equally inept fathers of their "Super Troopers" characters.
"The joke is that we'll make it Super Troopers '76, set during the bicentennial," Chandrasekhar told RT. "We'll have a little shaggier hair and mustaches...we might do it, I don't know. That movie has sort of a special place in a lot of people's hearts, so all we can do is f*ck it up...So I don't know...I've been writing some little gags and I have a little file of "Super Troopers 2" gags, and we'll see if we turn that into a flick or not."
In the meantime, Broken Lizard's "Beerfest" sloshes into theaters August 25. Check out the trailer and Beer Olympics photos from the flick!
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IMAmoose24 writes: on Aug 14 2006 09:38 PM Broken Lizard is the shiz. All the projects sound fantastic to me. (Reply to this) |
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TheBomb69 writes: on Aug 14 2006 11:17 PM Beerfest on the 25th!!! (Reply to this) |
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killthemall4444 writes: on Aug 14 2006 11:28 PM I loved supertroopers for the most part so I wouldn't mind a sequel at all. (Reply to this) |
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thadeus_79 writes: on Aug 15 2006 07:51 AM I love supertroopers too, but I think Jay is right, a sequel(prequel) could be really bad and ruin the whole supertrooper phenomenon. (Reply to this) |
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randal1013 writes: on Aug 15 2006 10:01 AM supertroopers doesn't seem like a movie that can have a sequel or a prequel. the thought never crossed my mind, but other people have been "long been screaming" for it? maybe it's just because i don't have my finger on the 'pulse', but this is the first i've heard anybody wanting a supertroopers sequel/prequel. (Reply to this) |
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Boss Fan writes: on Aug 15 2006 02:22 PM I'm excited for "Beerfest" (combines three of my favorite things: Broken Lizard, Beer and Boobs), but if it goes the way of "Club Dread" box-office wise. I'm sure we'll be seeing "Super Troopers 2" sooner than they say. (Reply to this) |
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The Senhman writes: on Aug 15 2006 02:53 PM In reply to this comment (#842156) I like Super Troopers, but wasn't a fan of Club Dread. Beerfest seems like it has a better chance at the box office. (Reply to this) |
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Boss Fan writes: on Aug 15 2006 03:10 PM In reply to this comment (#842157) I'd be inclined to agree, and I'd like it to do well, but I don't know about its chances. First, it hasen't really been promoted all that strongly, at least from what I've seen (I saw a preview in the theatres first, and only so far, before "Clerks II" and I don't know if I've seen a TV ad yet), and Broken Lizard, while famous on something of a cult level, will not sell a ton of tickets on their name alone. That basically leaves a frat-boy movie like every other to those who aren't familiar with Lizard. Those aren't guaranteed comedy/box office gold. Typically, if this type of movie finds an audience at all, or is ever called a hit, it is on DVD after word of mouth spreads through colleges and high schools. There's always a chance for it to breakout though. I'll be rooting for it. I'td be nice if it seemed like Warner Bros. was doing the same. (Reply to this) |
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Bad_Animation_Man writes: on Aug 15 2006 09:33 PM [b]Ever since Club Dread and Dukes .......[/b] Don't really care what Broken Lizard does now , Clud Dread and Hazard were the worst movies I've ever watched . Super Troopers was funny , but a sequel ? Waste of time . Broken Lizard might redeem themselves with Beerfest , but by the sound of it you'd be better off renting a porno and getting as good a story. Broken Lizard had one decent movie , but the rest are nothing more than B movies that would have been decent back in 1981 . (Reply to this) |
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magrurry writes: on Oct 24 2007 11:21 PM I for one think that Broken Lizard had lost it's way after ST. the same as Ben Stiller or Eddie Murphy. When was the last time Ben Stiller made you laugh? re-runs of his old tv show prolly. Super Troopers worked on a lot of levels because it seemed to be a story about highway cops butting heads with local cops and some murder story mixed in. only with ridiculous characters playing the cops, you wouldn't take it seriously. then Brian Cox says, "i just got off the phone with Tom McCartle from the budget committee, This thing with Farva really screwed our pooch...." it seems that despite the highjinks that the boys were having, There was really something at stake here. We were all invested. So the movie, at least most of it, held us and paid off in the end with that Frat party bust thing. Club Dread was a throwback to the horror movies of the late 70's early '80's, with a Scream twist, when kids were killed by some maniac just to show kids having sex with their clothes off. but i never got into seeing Farva as the hero and Jay as some bumbling whatever he was. plus i never really knew who was a counselor and who wasn't. never had that trouble with Meatballs. And i wasn't going to watch this movie again. What the ****? then Beerfest? drinking beer is not funny. making fun of Germans, while acceptable as apparently we'll NEVER forget Hitler, is not F-U-N-N-Y. i was disappointed. i knew that Jay wanted to do new stuff as he directed Dukes of Hazzard, which sucked, but Jessica Simpson must've been fun to watch in that outfit, but they seemed to want to put some distance between themselves and a structured movie with a plot in favor of dallying in movie projects where they could get laid, or make fart/*****/murder/ Germans are rigid jokes, and i was just pissed. I started to hate ME for liking Super Troopers so much that i even thought the word Sequel. Theses guys should all be on the same page. we discovered them together, and movies that put them separately coming to an island or foreign country to compete, then they meet each other, takes up too much time, much like this entry, if they already know each other and trust each other, like a bunch of highway cops, we'll trust and like them too. Saves time. SUPER TROOPERS 2 AND 3!!!!! (Reply to this) |
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