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

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Broken Lizard talks with Collider about the possibilities of Super Troopers 4 and a Beerfest sequel. Read on for more details.

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Published Aug 12, 2026, 12:43 PM EDT

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

Summary

Collider's Steven Weintraub talks with Broken Lizard for Super Troopers 3.
The team discusses the making of the third movie, which jokes were cut, how they discovered the storyline, and reuniting with Brian Cox.
They also talk about the potential for Super Troopers 4 and revisiting Beerfest for a sequel.

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.

Broken Lizard on the Current Landscape of R-Rated Comedies "This genre’s still in the process of coming back."

The Broken Lizard troupe in Super Troopers.

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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.

LEMME: Yeah, that’s why it’s so funny when we get bad reviews, and the reviewers are like, “Oh, these guys don’t care. If you just want a bunch of dick jokes…” We put a lot of work into those dick jokes.

HEFFERNAN: They’re well-crafted dick jokes.

LEMME: Can we use bad language on this?

We can, yes.

CHANDRASEKHAR: It’s too late now.

HEFFERNAN: They all just watched a rated-R movie. We can say whatever we want.

Some of the questions that are coming, you’ll understand. It’s an R-rated Q&A. Which lines from the first two films are you most tired of hearing, and which ones still make you smile?

LEMME: We’re not tired of hearing any of them.

HEFFERNAN: No. We wrote them, right?

PAUL SOTER: It's still the coolest thing.

HEFFERNAN: The hard one for me is the chicken fucker line. And it was because in the second movie, we crowdfunded it, and so people would buy the opportunity to have me personalize a chicken fucker video to them, and we ended up selling 1,500 of them. I spent three days in my backyard in a uniform recording chicken fucker videos — “Jim, you're a chicken fucker. Bill, you're a chicken fucker. Mary, you're a chicken fucker.” It went on forever.

STOLHANSKE: I would have loved to have been your neighbor for that one.

SOTER: We should have gotten that in the Guinness World Records, because clearly no human being on earth has ever called somebody a chicken fucker 1,500 times in 48 hours.

HEFFERNAN: I know. It's crazy.

LEMME: Also, in the original Super Troopers, who are the chicken fuckers?

HEFFERNAN: My parents were the chicken fuckers. My parents are the chicken fuckers. And my dad's watching right now in Milford, Connecticut. He's the chicken fucker.

LEMME: His father's a retired judge.

HEFFERNAN: Yeah. We were at a restaurant one time, and someone walked up to the table, and I'm eating with him, and the guy goes, “Oh, you're the chicken fucker,” and he walks away. My dad goes, “You know what? I spent 32 years as a judge, and now I'm going to be known as the chicken fucker.”

SOTER: It's amazing how many times you've made your family sigh over the course of this franchise, because you were also talking about watching this with your wife, and that same sigh, that same, like, “Ugh.”

HEFFERNAN: I show my butt in this movie. Do you guys remember that part? I was sitting next to my wife for the first screening event, and instead of laughing, she was like, “Oh, Jesus Christ.” That was her reaction.

LEMME: I learned a term. I was doing an interview yesterday, and somebody had seen the movie, and he said you have bulldog cheeks.

HEFFERNAN: [Laughs] What is that?

LEMME: The inside of your thighs are hanging down like a bulldog's jowls.

SOTER: Your nether jowls.

HEFFERNAN: We had a screening last week, and we invited our doctor. The three of us have the same doctor, and he came to the screening, and I realized that he might be the only person who’s seen me from that angle before, and he found it very funny.

LEMME: Not anymore.

HEFFERNAN: Now you all have.

SOTER: He also had a disappointed side because he's used to having that angle all to himself, and now he has to share you with the world.

When I first heard it was going to be Super Troopers 3 that you guys were going to do, it was called Winter Soldiers. I'm just curious what happened with the title.

CHANDRASEKHAR: I thought it'd be fun to shoot a movie in the winter and, like, knock icicles off our mustaches, and then these guys were like, “We're not shooting in the winter.” Then we shot this video for some maple syrup company in the winter, and it was so cold that your jaw slowed down about 20%, and that was never going to work for me. We need to have the timing just perfect. So, we decided to shoot in the summer.

Why 'Super Troopers' Has Resonated With Fans for 25 Years "It's a group of friends just having fun with each other."

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What do you think it is about these characters and the world of Super Troopers that has resonated with so many people and allowed you to make three movies?

HEFFERNAN: I think a lot of it is just, like I said earlier, the fact that we're friends and our humor comes from the kind of humor when you have a bunch of friends sitting around and making fun of each other and cracking jokes. I think that resonates with people. People can see that, and I think they feel like they want to be a part of that. Everyone has that with their friends, and so I think people want to be a part of that. We try to put that on the screen, just kind of good-natured friends having fun together, and I think that's what people like about these things. I don't know.

LEMME: Yeah, that's the spine of all three movies. It's a group of friends just having fun with each other, and that’s what it’s all about.

When you guys started developing the idea for the sequel, what were some of the other ideas you came up with, and how did you end up with Farva getting married to Thorny’s sister?

HEFFERNAN: One of the first things was the bad guys were the FBI, wasn't it? Remember that?

LEMME: Well, we were talking about movies like High Noon and One False Move where some bad guys were going to be coming through the town.

HEFFERNAN: Oh, yeah, like a motorcycle gang or something.

LEMME: And then the FBI was going to use our station as their makeshift headquarters at a potential border spot for this motorcycle gang to come through. The FBI was just going to be dicks to us.

HEFFERNAN: Sounds too elaborate.

LEMME: Yeah. We thought Farva fucking Thorny’s sister was better.

SOTER: But it was. Our assumption was, okay, the crime plot is the A plot, and this Farva/Thorny/Thorny’s sister was going to be a secondary plot, but we kept having more and more fun with it and more fun ideas. Then when you realize, “Wait, it's a wedding,” then you gotta do the meeting the parents and you gotta do a bachelor party. You gotta do the fitting. When we realized, in order to service a wedding story, there was so much to do, we were like, “Maybe that's just the A story.” It was kind of cool the way it happened, though.

How did you actually figure out the B plot? All three movies obviously have the mystery, so how did this one come together?

SOTER: There were some maple syrup heists we liked, that we were reading a little bit of maple syrup crime, and we thought that's uniquely Vermont.

HEFFERNAN: Yeah. And then I think we just decided to make it into a drug [laughs], because every one of the movies is about drug smuggling. So, here was our Canadian Brown.

LEMME: And we came up with the joke “Molly, Molly oxen free” pretty early, and decided to make that a plot.

'Super Troopers 3' Is Jam-Packed With References The team also reveals a surprise cameo from the new film.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider.

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True or not true: You based the electric car on KITT from Knight Rider?

CHANDRASEKHAR: Yeah, it's definitely true. I had worked on the television show Knight Rider. I directed a couple of episodes of that years ago, and I remember I showed up for the first day, and the producer came running up to me and said, “Have you seen Val?” Because Val Kilmer did the voice of Knight Rider, and I'm like, “I just got here.” And they were like, “God, he borrowed my car to go get some cigarettes three days ago, and he hasn't shown up.”

That's crazy.

HEFFERNAN: In an early incarnation, we toyed with how much voice we would have, how much voice the EV car would have, and we had, actually, different voices. For a long, long time, it was supposed to be the voice of Kermit the Frog, the car, and then we realized we couldn't pay for the rights to Kermit the Frog, and we didn't want to get sued.

LEMME: But Erik and Jay do great Kermit the Frog impressions.

CHANDRASEKHAR: “Kermit the Frog, here.”

LEMME: There you go.

STOLHANSKE: But you couldn’t afford me.

CHANDRASEKHAR: “Kermit the Frog here.” But [Erik] taught me that.

HEFFERNAN: But for a long time, it was Kermit the Frog that he was arguing with in the car, and we ended up changing that.

LEMME: I was really sad when we had to release Kermit from his obligations.

HEFFERNAN: Money. It's money.

LEMME: But can anybody guess who the voice is of the car?

AUDIENCE: Will Sasso.

LEMME: Yeah! Will Sasso. Perhaps the funniest Canadian.

True or not true: I feel like Mac getting frozen was a nod to The Empire Strikes Back with Han in Carbonite.

HEFFERNAN: True.

LEMME: That is very true. It's the exact position. It was an honor to play that, and now I own that prop.

Do you really?

LEMME: Yeah. It's terrifying for my children.

SOTER: That is very traumatizing.

HEFFERNAN: But we had the idea, right, that you were going to fall onto the car, and then it was like, why don't we put you in a block of goo and then pay homage to the Han Solo stuff? And I think people felt we were jumping the shark a little bit at some point, but then once you started talking, which is so funny, with your mouth and the thing, and you're talking, I think everyone forgave us for jumping the shark.

LEMME: We usually do jump the shark a little bit in the third act of our Super Troopers movies. Like, the bulletproof jockstrap was another thing. But we've established the trust all the way to that point, and I think we get allowed to do one little jump.

The Cast of 'Super Troopers 3' Break Down the Movie's Most Bonkers Sequences "We thought it would be ridiculous."

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Which joke caused the longest break in filming because no one could stop laughing?

HEFFERNAN: Some of that lobster stuff, I think. That was a very fun scene to shoot because we were all there, all of us were there together. Sometimes you're paired off or whatever, doing scenes, but all of us were there. We were in a real steakhouse. We had real steak and real lobsters, and so it was kind of like a real bachelor party. It was like hanging out for a couple of days, shooting a real bachelor party. There were just a lot of funny things — the fight, the lobster eating, the EpiPens. All that stuff I think we got a real kick out of shooting that stuff.

SOTER: I broke character when the calamari showed up, and it was cold. So, I broke character to snap on somebody. “Why the fuck are you bringing cold calamari? We're gonna eat this stuff.” My biggest star tantrum.

I actually wanted to dive into this. There are a few scenes that really made me laugh out loud. One of them is the lobster with the EpiPen. What is it actually like writing that scene, and how did you come up with it and take it to the extreme that you did?

HEFFERNAN: I was against the lobster thing, I was against the Boston accent, all that stuff. Somebody pitched it, and I was like, “That's a little bit much. I don't believe Farva is really from Boston.” Whatever it was. But then it became clear that it was pretty funny. So, somebody pushed that. I can't remember.

STOLHANSKE: We liked to have a backstory that we knew nothing about. We thought it would be ridiculous.

LEMME: We're left with more questions than we are answers. Like, is he a test tube baby? Is his father a lobster? We don't know.

HEFFERNAN: But that was fun. And also, that lobster fight. It's just, like, three sentences on a page — “the guys try to tackle Farva” — and then we had these stuntmen who were fantastic, and they choreographed this whole fight. We spent a night shooting that fight, and it was so fun because we don't do that kind of stuff. We sit around a room and crack jokes, but all of a sudden we're in this fight scene, which was very funny.

STOLHANSKE: You got thrown over tables, and we got to jump and tackle you. It was the best.

Jay, talk a little bit about editing something like that and putting that sequence together.

CHANDRASEKHAR: This movie was very tightly scheduled, so we didn't have a ton of time to shoot extra stuff. So in that particular fight, when I talked to the stunt coordinator, we were basically laying the cameras in certain exact spots. We’d shoot eight seconds of that part of the fight. We just would move on and move on, and it clicks together like LEGOs. Like, there's kind of one way to cut that scene. There's not a million feet of footage. It's very, very specific.

Another scene that really made me laugh out loud was the syrup explosion scene. How did that scene happen and end with Jay saying “bukkake?”

HEFFERNAN: That was a very early written scene. I think that was one of the early written scenes. Somebody, Soter maybe, wrote this robot scene where you guys were going to mess around with a robot, and it went through various incarnations.

SOTER: Right. Because even the plot changed, but we wanted to keep the bomb-detonating robot because we liked the idea of Foster, who is generally the least qualified to do any of the police business, doing it while struggling now with Ursula being present. He's immediately had these second thoughts, and he's in his own head, and we loved the idea of he's upset, she's right there. He thinks she's found another man, but he's also controlling a very dangerous robot. So even though some of the iterations changed, we liked the kernel of that.

HEFFERNAN: What about your bukkake line?

CHANDRASEKHAR: Well, we hadn't done the stunt where we shot all the goo all over everybody's face, but I decided, “I bet it's going to be great, and I bet I'm going to want to say bukkake.” So, I said it in advance, and then we shot all the shooting, and I'm like, “Yeah. Bukkake. There you go.”

HEFFERNAN: My dad is learning right now what bukkake is. He doesn't know.

SOTER: Oh, you can hear another disappointed sigh just wafting through the air in Connecticut.

STOLHANSKE: “Why, Kevin? Why?”

LEMME: Do you think somebody’s explaining it to him right now?

HEFFERNAN: I hope not. God, I hope not.

That Connecticut theater.

HEFFERNAN: “Here's what it is.”

SOTER: The usher leaning over.

HEFFERNAN: Or he's pulling out his Urban Dictionary.

LEMME: “You need at least eight people for a bukkake.”

Another scene that really made me laugh was your character's dad's leg getting broken, which I think made everyone in here laugh, as well. Talk a little bit about writing that scene and also filming it.

CHANDRASEKHAR: We're looking for big endings to scenes sometimes, and that was going to be our big ending. There have been a couple of bone breaks in cinema history that we were kind of looking at and trying to figure out, because you can only really show a little bit of it because it's really quite gruesome. But I really love how it turned out. I mean, it's violent and quick and yikes.

HEFFERNAN: There were a few iterations of that, too. I think the thing that always remained was Farva in the cuck chair.

STOLHANSKE: That was the main joke.

HEFFERNAN: That was the staple.

SOTER: Because it was originally that we were going to go from the restaurant to Thorny’s swingers club, and then that was where that part of Thorny’s plot to entrap Farva took place. The bachelor party just became so unwieldy that we had to figure out these ways to compress things.

LEMME: Well, yeah, and that swingers club was going to be like an Eyes Wide Shut thing with us all in, like, bird masks with our mustaches showing, and then we'd go into the cuck room. I think we had talked about it being framed so that you could just see Farva up here, and his arm was down here doing this, and then you pulled out and revealed that he was just shaking some peanuts in his hand.

SOTER: Cocktail peanuts. God, we shouldn't give that away. It's a great bit. We gotta figure out a way.

For the sequel.

LEMME: I just want Kevin's dad in a theater to hear all this shit that we planned.

SOTER: Right. How much worse it could have been.

You have that hat with the penis and balls. Was that something you guys found in a store and said, “It is going in the movie,” or is that prop department? How did that come about?

HEFFERNAN: That was prop department. We wrote the idea of, like, guys who are wearing hats with dicks on it, or whatever, and then the prop department goes and creates this thing. The really great thing about it is that it took a while, like maybe half the night, before I realized there were balls in it because the dick was on top, and then the balls were underneath. It wasn't until I looked at the monitor for one of the shots where I was like, “Holy shit, there's balls there, too.”

SOTER: Why are we not selling that? We’ve got these popcorn buckets.

HEFFERNAN: This is a Disney movie, buddy.

LEMME: The Milk Duds would go in the balls. I always like to see the evolution of the scene, too, because then at some point we're like, “Why don't you start getting that dick in on Thorny’s face?”

HEFFERNAN: And so that scene in the bathroom, there's a lot more of me rubbing that dick in his face, but we had to trim it down a little bit.

I'm wondering how long before someone creates that popcorn bucket as the alt. By the way, there's a great popcorn bucket for the movie.

HEFFERNAN: It’s like a collector’s item.

'Super Troopers 4' and a 'Beerfest' Sequel Have Been Floated Around at Broken Lizard The team also reveal how they keep convincing 'Succession' star Brian Cox to come back.

Men standing behind a table in Beerfest.

Did Brian Cox agree to come back and do the sequel because you told him he would be with Lynda Carter at the end?

CHANDRASEKHAR: [Laughs] No, but that's absolutely his favorite scene in the movie. He just was very happy that his character was having sex with Wonder Woman.

SOTER: There was a time when we were still thinking about Winter Soldiers that he pitched to us that the whole movie, we would just check in on him and do FaceTimes with him, and he's in a chalet with Lynda Carter. The entirety of the movie, that's the only time we ever see him. That was his idea of the perfect version.

LEMME: Yeah, because he just doesn't want to spend any more time with us, I think, but we keep making him come back.

I love in the ending credits where he says, “I've done more Shakespeare than you've had hot dinners.” Do you ever get the vibe that he's legit angry at you guys?

HEFFERNAN: Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

SOTER: Next time you see it, look at my face, because he's yelling at me, and I'm, like, holding in tears because he's a father figure to us. Him being crusty has always been a delightful part of his participation.

HEFFERNAN: And ratcheting it up between 2 and 3.

SOTER: Yeah, because now Logan Roy has allowed him to lean into a thing that's clearly inside of him, which is genius, but I don't like being in the fucking blast zone of that dude.

HEFFERNAN: And we all get in the blast zone. All of us have been in the blast zone.

STOLHANSKE: Paul’s like, “I've had a lot of hot dinners before.”

HEFFERNAN: But you, [Jay], were the most in the blast zone.

CHANDRASEKHAR: Yeah, we didn't show that footage.

Also during the credits, you announced Super Troopers 4: The Hunt for O’Hagan’s Gold. When did you decide to put that in?

LEMME: [Laughs] We're so stupid. We got into trouble with this when we made Beerfest, and we said, “Coming soon: Potfest.” We still have angry stoners coming up to us going, “Where's fucking Potfest, man? You promised, man.”

SOTER: It's amazing how angry stoners can get. “You don't do that to a brother, man. Promise this fucking movie. Twenty years I've been sitting around with my thumb up my ass, man.”

LEMME: But now we've done it again with The Hunt for O'Hagan’s Gold.

SOTER: I remember the riff because that scene was the result of having to do a rewrite, and then we just went down this rabbit hole of, “What if all this time he's been hiding? The whole reason he's been there is because he's hiding treasure in the basement, and that he and Governor Jessman have a serious conversation about having us killed?” And it turned into this whole, like, that's a funny, ridiculous, kind of sideways thing.

HEFFERNAN: Jumping the shark.

SOTER: Yeah. We decided to keep some of it.

LEMME: But I guess that's the question. Do you guys think that we should actually have O’Hagan’s gold buried in the station?

[Audience cheers] By the way, based on the Q&A, I've learned that if you have Brian with Lynda in the sequel, he will probably want to do it.

CHANDRASEKHAR: Yeah, he’ll show up.

SOTER: But that's the problem. It paints us in a corner because The Hunt for O'Hagan’s Gold really relies on his participation. He's going to be like, “Fuck off.”

Every one of these films has one of you guys getting in a relationship with someone. If you make another sequel, who is getting the relationship?

HEFFERNAN: Who hasn't had one?

SOTER: Well, [Erik] had it in 2…

HEFFERNAN: [To Jay] You kind of. I mean, you were married in 1, but you need a girl.

SOTER: Yeah, it's your turn in the jackpot.

HEFFERNAN: You need to find love.

CHANDRASEKHAR: I also had that three-way with the Germans.

HEFFERNAN: Right. But that's not love.

CHANDRASEKHAR: Oh, love. [Laughs]

LEMME: Do you even know what love is, Jay?

CHANDRASEKHAR: Maybe I’ll find out in 4.

What is going on with this thing called Potfest and also Beerfest 2?

SOTER: Alright. We're going to put it to the crowd. Who would rather see Potfest versus Beerfest 2?

HEFFERNAN: More Beer.

CHANDRASEKHAR: Both. Both ideas.

SOTER: And where are my Fuckfest people at? Okay, great. Great.

CHANDRASEKHAR: The characters are owned by Warner Bros., which is being bought by Paramount.

SOTER: There's going to be a trial in 2027 and this will all get settled.

CHANDRASEKHAR: Once that's settled, we can kind of get on with that thing.

HEFFERNAN: Yeah, we're helping negotiate it, so…

Just send in Brian Cox. Behind the scenes, which joke or scene was the most debated with you guys before locking the script?

HEFFERNAN: We got into a big fight in the edit room. There’s a scene after the dad breaks his leg and the mother's chastising you, [Jay]. Remember this? And she says, “Did you set up the ménage à trois?” We had her do it in a straight voice, and we had to do it with the French accent, and we got into a huge fight about what the level of the French accent should be. My thing was, let's go as French as we can, and yours was in the other direction, and I think we landed somewhere in the middle. But it was a significant fight in the edit room.

LEMME: Also, we get into some dumb fights.

CHANDRASEKHAR: I still think it's too big.

HEFFERNAN: It gets a huge laugh, right? Come on. “Ménage à trois.”

SOTER: But that's the mom and dad fight that has existed for decades between Jay and Kevin. Kevin, if this were the recording studio, he'd be the guy pushing the faders all the way up, and Jay would be the guy sliding the faders back down. That's just part of the wonderful tension of our relationship.

LEMME: But that's a good fight. That's a good creative fight. Of these five guys here, I was not one of them, but there were two guys here who got in a 30-minute fight about the syntax of a script — ellipsis versus a hyphen. And those of us who weren't in the fight just kind of start stepping away and preparing our lunch and everything. Do you guys want to out yourselves as being part of that fight?

SOTER: I'm ellipsis.

CHANDRASEKHAR: I was for the hyphen.

HEFFERNAN: And it went on for so long. The three of us just got up and left the room. They're trying to lobby us to get on one of their sides. We’re like, “I don't fucking care, man.”

LEMME: Yeah. “What do you think?” “I don't fucking care. I'm enjoying watching this fight, so I'm not going to take a side.”

Of all the things I thought you were going to fight about, that is not what I expected.

CHANDRASEKHAR: There were some Indian jokes that Heffernan didn't want to say.

HEFFERNAN: True. Well, I'm the one who's going to get, like, killed. You know what I mean? We're going to do the promotional tour in India, and I'm not going to make it out.

CHANDRASEKHAR: That’s what I told you. When the heat comes down, I'll go up and say, “I wrote all those jokes.”

LEMME: You and Salman Rushdie could go off into exile.

Whose idea was it to put in all the dancing, and were you immediately regretting it?

HEFFERNAN: No, I didn't regret it. I mean, it was great. It's so outside of our wheelhouse. Again, that's another thing. It was on the first page of the script, and it was like one sentence — “Farva does a Bollywood dance with his new wife” — and you're like, “Okay.” And then all of a sudden, it kind of created this.

You're always trying to top. Super Troopers has become known for the opening scene, the first Super Troopers, and you want to have a good opening scene. So we were like, “Let's try this Bollywood thing. It's so different.” And so we went and got these choreographers, and Hannah [Simone] and I did three or four days of full rehearsing and learning these numbers. And I'm not a dancer. I’m not typically good at it, and they protected me very well.

It ended up being a blast. We spent one night shooting it. And it was real dancers in that thing. Farva’s in the flying V with guys dancing behind him. It was unbelievable. So, to me, it’s one of the most fun parts of shooting this movie because it's so far out of our wheelhouse and something we've never done before. And now we have a musical Bollywood dance number in the movie.

LEMME: If you want to treat yourself to a good time, get really high and watch the background dancers.

HEFFERNAN: Yeah, they're great.

LEMME: So enthusiastic.

HEFFERNAN: They're great.

STOLHANSKE: You held your own weight.

HEFFERNAN: Thank you.

I also want to point out you brought in some new supporting players, and I really want to give credit to Nat Faxon, who really brought it as the captain. You’ve worked with him before, but he's also a very talented writer. What was it like collaborating with him? What energy did he bring to the set that enabled you guys to riff off him or together?

CHANDRASEKHAR: The part itself was written a little more straight than what he did. It was written to be like the new captain, and he seemed to find the funny part of everything we wrote. Like, I almost feel like we didn't write enough jokes for him, but he kind of created them and found them because he's this very talented, Groundlings-trained guy. He also won an Oscar for writing The Descendants. He's a talented guy.

HEFFERNAN: Which we just make fun of him for, right?

LEMME: Also, a few years ago, remember the Geico cavemen commercials? They turned it into a TV show, and he was one of the finalists to play one of the cavemen. They made him all up and everything. You can't tell it's him except for right in the middle, like all those busted teeth of his.

I'm going to say a huge thank you to…

CHANDRASEKHAR: Wait, we're going to end it on Nat's busted teeth?

SOTER: He would want it that way.

Here we go. If Farva was named chief of police for 24 hours, what is the very first law he would enforce?

HEFFERNAN: Wasn’t that one of the plots we entertained at one point, that Farva became the chief?

CHANDRASEKHAR: We did discuss having an internal chief of police instead of Nat Faxon. We went down that road for a while. But I think it was going to be Foster. Paul was going to be the chief. We write a lot of drafts. We go down roads, and we just abandon them and come back.

HEFFERNAN: But I don't know, what would Farva’s thing be? Only green M&Ms in the station? The right to chew gum. I don't know.

STOLHANSKE: Underwear on the outside of your pants.

Super Troopers 3 is in theaters now. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

Release Date August 7, 2026

Runtime 104 Minutes

Director Jay Chandrasekhar

Cast

Steve Lemme

MacIntyre 'Mac' Womack
Erik Stolhanske

Robbie 'Rabbit' Roto

Writers Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme

Producers Richard Perello

Prequel(s) Super Troopers, Super Troopers 2

Franchise(s) Super Troopers

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