Knights of Badassdom

[yoco]

Release Date: TBA
Studio: IndieVest Pictures
Director: Joe Lynch
Screenwriter: Matt Wall, Kevin Dreyfuss
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau, Danny Pudi, Margarita Levieva
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Not Available

In this humorous fantasy adventure from IndieVest Pictures, Joe (Ryan Kwanten) is a heavy metal rocker who’s just gone through a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Beth (Margarita Levieva). His concerned roommates (Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage) kidnap him to their LARP (Live Action Role Playing) gathering, where he enters a realm of fantasy escapism in which pretend knights, elves, and barbarians clash with foam weaponry on a mock battlefield. When Joe's "sorcerer" roommate (Zahn) inadvertently summons a deadly succubus that takes Beth's seductive form, bloody reality crashes down upon their fantasy world. Once LARPers start to turn up dead, the make-believe wizards and warriors must become the real life heroes they have been pretending to be in order to conquer the evil that has been unleashed.

[SealLion]

All right!!
LOL. This will be pretty funny to watch when it does come out. Love the blood-sucking huntress/woman knight.

[slikrapid]

Joe (Ryan Kwanten) is a heavy metal rocker

hardly, he is more like an emo/screamo/nu- 'rocker'

in which pretend knights, elves, and barbarians clash with foam weaponry...
Once LARPers start to turn up dead, the make-believe wizards and warriors must become the real life heroes they have been pretending to be

so what happened to the foam weapons, turned into real weaponry?

summons a deadly succubus that takes Beth's seductive form

thats actually pretty nasty from the scriptwriters: the succubus obviously symbolizes the 'bad' girlfriend (through depicting her as an 'evil' being she also symbolizes women in general, the 'eves' of the world - that's a visible misogynistic element covered up by the comedic appearance of the movie), guilty of dumping the main character - now he gets a chance not only to have simple revenge but to actually slaughter the 'eve' for being so 'evil' to his majesty, the male ego - furthermore, everyone watching will be cheering for the main character without realizing whats actually being celebrated here


LARP related topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_reenactment