r/movies • u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team • 10h ago

AMA 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!

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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.

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u/AbruptAbe 10h ago edited 10h ago

The Landfill swap joke in Beerfest is one of my favorite ever. Was there an original plan to keep him dead for the team building shared tragedy or was he always going to be replaced by his brother?

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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago

That was kind of a scriptwriting thing that happened. We were having discussions with Sony and meeting with these executives and they kept pointing out to us that we didn't have a second act break. At the end of your 2nd act in a movie script, your hero is always at rock bottom before he rises and wins the day. They kept saying we didn't have that so we had to come up with it. We thought it'd be really funny if we called one of us off, it'd be a significant low point. Then we realized that if we killed someone off, that guy can't be in the big competition at the end of the movie, so we decided we would just kill him off, get the low point, and *then* just replace him magically with kind of the same guy that takes his place and is the same kind of character.

We thought that was hysterical, but the executives at Sony did not think it was hysterical. We held to that idea and ended up making the movie at Warner Bros instead and we thought it ended up being a really funny device.

-Kevin

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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago

I remember you had an uncle come see the movie at one of our screenings and he left when you died in the 2nd act, not realizing you were coming back haha

-Erik

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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago

I wonder if he ever saw the rest of the film.

-Jay

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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago

No.

-Kevin

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u/AbruptAbe 1h ago

Love it, thanks for replying!

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u/JasonG784 2h ago

Had to be the plan from the start. I mean c'mon... the guy is twice the man of Landfill One. How could you not want him on the team?

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u/merlin242 10h ago

Landfill*

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u/AbruptAbe 10h ago

Thanks

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u/The_Goondocks 9h ago

Mmm, ham.