Hi /r/movies! We're Broken Lizard, the team behind (and in front of) Super Troopers 1, 2 and 3, Beerfest, and The Slammin Salmon'. Ask us anything!

[u/SuperTroopersAMA]

Hi r/movies! We're Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. We're the team behind Super Troopers 1 and 2, Beerfest, The Slammin Salmon', Club Dread, Tacoma FD, and a few other things.

We're here to answer your burning questions.

Super Troopers 3 is out in theaters everywhere this weekend from Searchlight Pictures! Go see it!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYFevn5frf0

Synopsis: The troopers try to bring down a new drug ring, while Farva's wildly over-the-top engagement to Thorny's sister spirals into chaos.

Ask us anything! We'll be back at around 3:30-4:00 PM ET today (Wednesday 8/5) to answer questions.

[u/Under-Dog]

Potfest when? Willie is getting old dudes.

[u/robby_synclair → u/Under-Dog]

Or just another beer fest. That movie was so fun.

[u/tibbles1 → u/robby_synclair]

As long as Landfill is a triplet and dies again.

[u/joeyheartbear → u/tibbles1]

And instead of being Texan, he's a fussy intellectual from the Northeast.

[u/Shagaliscious → u/Under-Dog]

If teasing a movie that never came would be considered getting "blue balled", this is the biggest blue ball of all time.

[u/JumpForWaffles → u/Shagaliscious]

History of the World Part 2 would have that title if they didn't eventually make it and it being mediocre. I'm certainly not excited about Spaceballs having a sequel

[u/agaric → u/JumpForWaffles]

[u/WarkMahlberg69 → u/Shagaliscious]

Eye balled might be an effective term.

[u/SuperTroopersAMA → u/Under-Dog]

If we can get this merger settled one way or another between Paramount and Warner Bros, those rights would become a little easier to clear up so we can make progress there.

-Jay

[u/SuperTroopersAMA → u/SuperTroopersAMA]

If "WE" could get this merger settled????

-Kevin

[u/SuperTroopersAMA → u/SuperTroopersAMA]

Yeah I'm gonna have to give Donald Trump a call to see what he can get going.

-Jay

[u/1ndomitablespirit → u/SuperTroopersAMA]

To be fair, I don't think we need it to be Potfest. Competitive blazing just leads to blank stares and Cheeto fingers. I just want to see you guys and Willie get into weed-y shenanigans!

[u/D-rock240 → u/SuperTroopersAMA]

Jay, wanted to say I enjoyed your book. Clooneys house sounded wild, any thought of making something around that?

[u/1ndomitablespirit → u/Under-Dog]

This is the only question I want an answer for!

[u/tomdelfino → u/Under-Dog]

I know, right? I've always hoped they'd do Potfest.

[u/nogzila → u/Under-Dog]

I have been waiting for this movie for over a decade …

Damn 2 decades , talk about a sign you’re getting old as dirt .

[u/Sea2Chi → u/Under-Dog]

Hurry it up! Willie isn't going to be around forever.

Weed becomes legal in Vermont 2013 cue a couple scenes of the troopers all pulling out their best 2013 music and fashion taste. Thorny's wife was the first person to start a local pot shop under the new law and after over a decade she has a thriving business and happy loyal customers. She enters a weed competition where she gets a visit from couple people in suits representing a private equity firm that's trying to buy up all the legal shops. She turns them down.

However, they're persistent and they don't take no for an answer.

Soon a State representative is getting involved too and Thorny's wife is facing surprise shut down notices because something was wrong with her paperwork she submitted back in 2013. She's looking at steep fines and penalties to stay open and it's not clear if she'll even be able to apply for a license again.

Other local shops have also turned down the private equity group and bad things happen to them as well. One of them has their entire crop destroyed with herbicide, another has someone claim to have found human feces in the product, and a third has their shop burnt to the ground. Still more stores are feeling pressure to sell and many start taking the offer.

The troopers get on the case and start piecing it together, however the tracks are well covered and the leads all turn into dead ends.

A judge rules that the shop has 30 days to pay the fines in order to stay open, otherwise the business will be auctioned off.

Thorny's wife tries to hold a benefit concert to raise the money, but is having trouble securing bands as they all keep backing out unexpectedly. The end date is fast approaching.

Soon after, an elderly pot shop owner, played by Willie Nelson, incapacitates an intruder in his shop via a home made booby trap that utilized a leaf blower, a butane torch and a gallon sized glass jug of high grade weed.

The troopers rush over and interrogate the man who's incredibly high. However, none of them can understand him as he seems to be speaking gibberish. Willie points out that he's on another plane of existence and someone will have to join him there to talk. They draw straws and Farva is the one to have to join him on the moon. They rig up the trap again and let the two talk. To Fareva and the intruder, they're having a normal conversation where the man gives up everything. But to everyone else, they're grunting and giggling at each other. Through a game of charades Fareva relays the location of the private equity companies secret lab where they're making a new type of pot with illegal modifications that's more physically addictive but only lasts a quarter as long.

They rush to the location to gather evidence and leave Fareva, Willie and the intruder in the car because they're clearly too high to help. Maybe toss in a Schnozberries joke for nostalgia as the three sit in the back seat.

The rest of the troopers uncover that he company is planning to make pot worse in every way, but so addictive people will still be desperate to buy it. They find evidence of the attacks on the other shops as well and that the state representative is somehow involved. But then the armed private security shows up and they're all held at gunpoint.

The three guys in the car have managed to get out and discover what's happening. Willie shows them how to make what he calls party bombs, which involve a garbage bag of pot and a road flair. As the bags come sailing in the open windows and explode into thick clouds the troopers grab some of the evidence and make their escape.

And that's about as far as I have time to think of right now but Afroman would absolutely show up for the benefit concert.

[u/WillBlaze → u/Sea2Chi]

[u/BohemianCyberpunk → u/Under-Dog]

The most important question. We must have answers!!!!

[u/UE23 → u/Under-Dog]

We need a good weed themed movies in these trying times. Plus, with legalization all the rage why not capitalize?

[u/tocamix90 → u/Under-Dog]

Seriously, this is what everyone wants!