Broken Lizard’s rogue Vermont troopers are back on the highway. Searchlight Pictures dropped the first trailer for Super Troopers 3 on Monday, confirming an August 7 theatrical release date and signaling the long-awaited return of one of comedy’s most durable cult franchises.
All five members of the Broken Lizard troupe — Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske — reprise their roles, joined by Brian Cox returning as Police Captain O’Hagan. The trailer promises high-speed chases, a wedding gone wrong, and the troupe’s signature brand of deadpan chaos. New additions include Nat Faxon as Captain Todd Markowski, Chace Crawford as Baker Buchanan, and Saturday Night Live’s Andrew Dismukes as Coy Burns.
Chandrasekhar directs from a script written by Broken Lizard, with Richard Perello producing. The film was produced by 20th Television. Production began in August 2025 and wrapped a few months later. The August 7 opening puts it in theaters against the second weekend of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The third film caps a franchise arc that reads like a study in fan-powered Hollywood. The original Super Troopers was acquired by Fox Searchlight at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it also won the Audience Award at SXSW. It grossed $23 million worldwide against a $1.2 million budget — respectable, but not enough to trigger an immediate sequel. It was in ancillary markets, on DVD and cable, that the film built a following ferocious enough to eventually demand a continuation.
Broken Lizard turned to Indiegogo in 2015 with a $2 million funding target. They hit that goal in just over 24 hours, and the campaign ultimately raised $4.4 million from more than 50,000 contributors — the second-most successful crowdfunding campaign for a movie at the time. Super Troopers 2 arrived in 2018, grossing $32 million globally and outperforming its predecessor.
Chandrasekhar had signaled the third film’s direction years ago, telling interviewers he wanted to set it in winter and call it Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers. That vision appears to have reached the screen with this latest installment, which Searchlight is positioning as a summer comedy event.
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Searchlight President Matthew Greenfield said the studio was “thrilled for another entry in the ‘Super Troopers’ saga,” praising the franchise’s ability to make “the absurd feel inevitable.”
