The highly anticipated sequel to the comedy cult classic Super Troopers has started production in Massachusetts.
Earlier this year, the movie’s production company, Broken Lizard, announced the sequel – 14 years after the first film’s release at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. To fulfill their initial $2 million dollar budget, producers created an Indiegogo campaign which helped them meet their goal in less than two days. The Broken Lizard team also held an additional two telethons to get their total budget up to $5 million.
Kevin Heffernan, who plays Farva, gave fans a little sneak peek at what they can expect from the film:
“The hard part about writing a script is usually nailing down your characters, and how they speak. The fun thing about jumping back into Super Troopers was that we know all those characters already and exactly what kind of stuff would come out of their mouths. We know their points of view, we know how they responded to situations. We know Farva, my character, is going to be an a**hole.”
Erik Stolhanske, aka Rabbit, added:
“We’re just better at constructing scenes and we’re a little more technical now, which is helpful in terms of focusing where scenes and stories are going. With the first Super Troopers, it started out as ten random scenes that were basically sketches, and from there we put a plot together. This time, we came up with the plot first and we’re plugging a lot of funny bits into it. So it’s just a different approach—maybe better, maybe not—but certainly evolved.”
Super Troopers 2 has been filming at the Quabbin Reservoir in Ware, MA since Thursday, Oct. 22. One of our readers, @pauls612, was lucky enough to meet the cast at the location over the weekend, check out a couple photos below:
Also got to meet Rabbit and Foster today at Quabbin Reservoir @olv #SuperTroopers2 pic.twitter.com/ac0K94rgTl
— Paul (@pauls612) October 25, 2015
Got to meet thorny today at Quabbin Reservoir in Ware today @olv #SuperTroopers2 pic.twitter.com/zQtMPTLZ93
— Paul (@pauls612) October 25, 2015
Be on the look out for Super Troopers 2 filming in Massachusetts (they are going under the working title Almond Benefits 2), let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
Almond Benefits 2
