It’s been a long time, but waiting for Super troopers 3 seems almost over. From the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, the original Supertroopers was released in theaters in 2001 to great acclaim. Many years and other projects would then come from the group to the first sequel, Super troopers 2was released in 2018. That year, director Jay Chandrasekhar announced that a third installment was in the works. dubbed Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiersthe title was a play on the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Progress is a bit slow on the third Supertroopers movie, though last year Chandrasekhar teased that the movie was still in development. A new update has now arrived, per Nerdtropolis, with Chandrasekhar revealing the film’s current status. He notes that the project now has about ten drafts in, but it is further teased that the film is finally coming soon as it is slated to be their next project after the release of their upcoming film. Quasi.
“I think the following,” Chandrasekhar said when asked when Super troopers 3 came. “We’re ten drafts in, so we’re hoping to do the next thing.”
Eric Stolhanske added: “It looks good!”
It sounds like the Broken Lizard team has been working hard on the movie continuously. Last summer, Chandrasekhar said they were on the seventh draft of the screenplay, though he noted that they could eventually get to the twentieth draft before the project would actually begin production.
“We’ve written draft seven, and so when we get to draft twenty, we start the machine,” he told Collider. “I mean, we wrote thirty-two drafts of super troopers 1and we wrote thirty drafts of Super troopers 2. It’s just our process… We throw out whole storylines and reorganize everything and bring back storylines. And it is a process, but eventually we will get there.”
For Super Troopers 3, Broken Lizard spoofs the Hunchback of Notre Dame
For now, Broken Lizard is targeting Quasimodo with their latest movie Quasi. A parody of The hunchback of the Notre Dame, the film tells of a love-craving hunchback caught up in a feud between the Pope and the King of Franche, each ordering the hunchback to kill the other. Kevin Heffernan directs the film and stars alongside Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske. Adrienne Palicki (The Orville) also stars.
You can watch Quasi when it debuts for streaming on Hulu on April 20, 2023.