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‘Super Troopers 2’ Crowdfund Raises $2 Million in One Day

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‘Super Troopers 2’ reaches its $2 million crowdfunding goal in one day.

According to reports, Jay Chandresekhar revealed why he chose to crowdfund the project: “since we refused to write a sequel where the highway cops have morphed into super hero-vampires, Fox Searchlight proposed the following deal: they’ll release the film, but we have to raise all of the money.” And it only took them a single day.

In just over 24 hours, comedy group Broken Lizard raised the $2 million it needed to hit the gas on Super Troopers 2.

With its Indiegogo campaign just launched on Tuesday morning, Broken Lizard is assured to make at least a “bare bones” version of the film, according to the filmmakers. With 31 bonus days of fundraising still to go, they could put a lot of meat on those bones.

When Veronica Mars [my review] launched its Kickstarter campaign in 2013 the goal was also $2 million for a green light. The film hit that number in a matter of hours, on the way to a final total of $5.7 million. [Mashable]

The first ‘Super Troopers’ centered around five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime. The last Super Troopers movie was released nearly 15 years ago and it major success making $23 million in the box office. Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 2½ stars out of 4, saying “I can’t quite recommend it — it’s too patched together — but I almost can; it’s the kind of movie that makes you want to like it”.

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