'Super Troopers 2' Soon to Become a Reality

I'm one-for-whatever with the Broken Lizard guys. I liked Super Troopers...and that was it. So, the news of a sequel to Super Troopers - something that's been rumored about for years - is tough to get really excited about. It's a ten-year-old concept that has been followed up by not just misfires but outright bad movies. I get the inclination to make a sequel, especially now that there's nothing else for Broken Lizard to hang its hat on, but there's a little boy who cried wolf going on here. Be that as it may, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, and Erik Stolhanske talked to Movie Cultists, who confirmed that financing is in place for Troopers 2 and that the group will try making a deal with Fox for distribution. “We’re like, three drafts into it,” Lemme said. “It’s funny, because we have an independent financier — we have a lot of independent financiers — who are like, ‘Give us that fucking movie.’ And we’re like, ‘We will, we will but we have to go through a studio first.’ But it’s a great thing to go to a studio and say, ‘We have the money.’” They confirm that Brian Cox is anxious to return as Captain O'Hagan. “Oh, yeah. Yep. He’ll be in it,” stated Chandrasekhar. “I mean, he loved [the first one]. He loved it.” If this were 2004, I'd be a lot more stoked about the sequel, but with Club Dread and Beerfest behind them and the less-than-inspiring trailers for Slammin' Salmon, I'll keep my optimism in check.