Looks like Super Troopers 2 is shooting in Massachusetts
Shenanigans are happening right meow.
If you haven’t already heard (what kind of former college kid are you?), dorm-room classic Super Troopers is getting a sequel, and it looks like it’s being produced in Massachusetts.
Areas around the Quabbin Reservoir (in Belchertown and Pelham, apparently) were closed over the weekend to faciliate shooting for the cop comedy, according to reports from WWLP.com and Worcester Telegram.
Super Troopers, a low-budget cop comedy turned cult staple, depicts the mishaps of a handful of dopey, yet rather endearing Vermont state troopers who spend a lot of time chugging maple syrup, messing with drivers, and brawling with the Neanderthals who work at the local police department. The movie was created with a teensy $1.2 million budget and ended up making $23 million in the box office upon its release in 2002.
It’s been more than three years since co-writer and director Jay Chandraskehar announced his plans for ST 2. Fox Searchlight agreed in March 2015 to release the sequel if it met its $2 million fundraising goal—the sequel earned a whopping $4.4 million on Indiegogo in April. That’s the second most successful crowd-sourced film campaign after Veronica Mars.
Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske — who together make up Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe behind Super Troopers and other staples like Club Dread and Beerfest — will reunite as the film’s group of Vermont cops.
A poster Instagrammed by @secretboston says that shooting will resume in the same area Monday on Old Ware-Enfield Road, Blue Meadow Road, and “between Observation tower, Hanks Meadow and Goodnough Dike.’’
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