Post by cbisle on Apr 28, 2005 18:23:18 GMT -4
Trailer Park Boys eye Hollywood
CBC News
HALIFAX – There will be even more witnesses to Julian and Ricky's schemes next year.
The producers of the cult TV show the Trailer Park Boys have confirmed the rumours those naughty Sunnyvale boys will be on the big screen.
Film crews will start shooting the Trailer Park Boys movie June 20.
"The challenge is to introduce it to a first-time audience, yet please our fans...who know the series very well," said Mike Clattenberg, the creator and director of the series.
"I'm very confident that we can do it."
Clattenberg has a big-name Hollywood producer backing the whole project: Ivan Reitman. The man behind the blockbusters Meatballs and Ghostbusters is the executive producer of the film.
"You know I'm a Canadian, I go to see them on television. I think this is a very funny group of guys and we think it will translate," Reitman said.
The plan is to release the film in Canada next summer, with the hope that it will then attract the interest of an American studio.
The budget for the movie is less than $5 million. And in true Trailer Park Boys style, it will likely have an R rating for the language, violence and drug references the show is known for.
CBC News
HALIFAX – There will be even more witnesses to Julian and Ricky's schemes next year.
The producers of the cult TV show the Trailer Park Boys have confirmed the rumours those naughty Sunnyvale boys will be on the big screen.
Film crews will start shooting the Trailer Park Boys movie June 20.
"The challenge is to introduce it to a first-time audience, yet please our fans...who know the series very well," said Mike Clattenberg, the creator and director of the series.
"I'm very confident that we can do it."
Clattenberg has a big-name Hollywood producer backing the whole project: Ivan Reitman. The man behind the blockbusters Meatballs and Ghostbusters is the executive producer of the film.
"You know I'm a Canadian, I go to see them on television. I think this is a very funny group of guys and we think it will translate," Reitman said.
The plan is to release the film in Canada next summer, with the hope that it will then attract the interest of an American studio.
The budget for the movie is less than $5 million. And in true Trailer Park Boys style, it will likely have an R rating for the language, violence and drug references the show is known for.
