If you’re a fan of booze, smoking, wild partying, raunchy
comedy, sex, booze, hazing, drugs, booze, reckless American colleges, booze and of course booze American
football, then you’ll love Blue Mountain
State. The outrageously crude comedy that ran for three seasons is set in
the American college of the same name and revolves around an irresponsible
football team pursuing glory on the field and glory in the bedroom.
The main star of the show was Alan Ritchson’s Thad
Castle who played as the football team’s captain and star line-backer. Castle
was an extremely eccentric character who provided a majority of the show’s
greatest moments. Imagine Stifler from the American
Pie franchise mixed with Zac Efron’s character from Bad Neighbours with the physique of Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street to gather a rough idea of
what he (and the series) was like…
After a poor show of ratings in the third season, Spike
TV Network cancelled the show despite it continuing to gather a huge cult following;
so big that it resulted in the talk of potential BMS movie or another season back in 2012.
And then came along 2014 where the Kickstarter campaign was born. Kickstarter saw a successful attempt of bringing a cancelled yet loved TV show to the big screen in the form of Veronica Mars, so what was stopping BMS? At the
beginning of April, the cast and creators of the show launched a Kickstarter
campaign in order to fund the dreams of what fans have been craving since cancellation. BMS: The Movie set a steep target of
$1.5 million, one of three to only set a mark beyond the million dollar mark.
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| One of the various movie posters given as a reward |
Over the course of a month, extensive marketing strategies
with American universities and merchandise sales helped to secure a final
figure of $1.9 million from 24,000 backers to bring the film from a dream to a
reality. As well as the various rewards fans received from donating money to
the project, they also received a fitting director for the film.
Jay Chandrasekhar, who directed some of the best
episodes of the show, as well as directing various episodes of Arrested Development, Community, and the 2005 film Dukes of Hazzard will helm the film. His
experience with comedies and even with the show’s characters will no doubt
benefit in shaping an interesting and outrageous reunion of the long awaited
return of Blue Mountain State and the
Mountain Goats football team.
Details of the film as of now are scarce, aside for
an almost full return of the cast, that is. More information soon to follow
when plot/script details will be released. Stay tuned.
Go Goats!
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