Broken Lizard Gives an Official Status Update on ‘Super Troopers 4’ and ‘Beerfest 2’

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Super Troopers 3.

For the opening night of Super Troopers 3, a threequel almost a decade in the making, Collider’s Steve Weintraub had the pleasure of moderating a Q&A session with Broken Lizard after our special fan screening. We were thrilled to have Farva (Kevin Heffernan), Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Mac (Steve Lemme), Foster (Paul Stoter), and Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske) hit the stage to celebrate their movie’s debut in front of a packed crowd, plus broadcast live to 1,100 theaters across North America. Getting a theatrical release is no easy task these days, but for an R-rated comedy, it’s nearly impossible, so what better way to drum up excitement than to chat with the brainpower behind it all?

In Super Troopers 3, the gang is back together for Farva’s extravagant wedding to none other than Thorny’s sister, Sarita (Hannah Simone). While Thorny is determined to break up this holy union, the guys are also dealing with a dangerous crime ring in the area. Super Troopers 3 also brings back Brian Cox as O’Hagan and Marisa Coughlan as Ursula, and introduces Nat Faxon as Todd Markowski, Thorny’s parents, played by Sakina Jaffrey and Iqbal Theba, Chace Crawford and Jon Rudnitsky as the Buchanan Brothers, and Lynda Carter as Governor Jessman.

Don’t miss the full Q&A in the video above, with a transcript provided below. Broken Lizard takes us behind the scenes to discuss how Farva and Sarita’s wedding came to be, which jokes didn’t make the final cut, and the other storylines the guys almost explored for the sequel. They also look back at the franchise’s most iconic and enduring jokes, discuss what it’s like working with Cox post-Succession acclaim, and tease the potential for Super Troopers 4 and a Beerfest sequel.

COLLIDER: I love R-rated comedies. Why don’t studios make more R-rated comedies?

JAY CHANDRASEKHAR: COVID kind of squashed all movies. They’re slowly coming back genre by genre, and this genre’s still in the process of coming back. So we’ll see if we can help it back.

STEVE LEMME: But I think everyone here will agree, seeing a comedy in a theater, with all these people around you laughing at the same time, is such a great feeling. It’s the only way to do it. It’s really great. It’s great to see everybody here.

KEVIN HEFFERNAN: But I think part of the reason is, logistically, those budgets fall into no man’s land, where the studios will make the big tentpole movies, and they’ll put them in a theater, because that’s the way they’ll make the return on their investment, and the very small movies, the low-budget ones, they can make money back because you spend less money. The comedies have been kind of in that middle, like, $20 million range these days, or whatever it is. I feel like the return is unsure. And like Jay said, in COVID, it became less sure. So, I think until we get people going to the theaters to watch these comedies, it’s going to be harder to bring them back. So, tell your friends.

ERIK STOLHANSKE: This has a great feel. It reminds me of growing up — Animal House, Fletch, and Spinal Tap. Going to a theater and feeling a room full of comedy and laughing is a great feeling. It’s just awesome.

What do you think would surprise fans to learn about making a Super Troopers movie, or a Broken Lizard movie?

HEFFERNAN: I think it’s how many drafts of the scripts we write. [Laughs] I think people look at it, and we’re very comfortable with each other, and we’ve been together for many, many years, since we were 18 years old, and it feels very comfortable, and it feels kind of improv-y and natural, but we do spend a lot of time writing scripts.

It comes from our days in independent film. We didn’t have much money, and you didn’t have time to mess around, so you would write the script and make sure it’s really good, and then you would shoot that script and get every word right. That’s the world we came from, and that’s why we still do that. We still write 30 drafts of a script before we shoot it.