The Texas Theatre Will Screen Napoleon Dynamite With 3 of the Original Cast

Probably the most awkward teen films about one of many world’s most awkward teens of all time is getting a particular screening subsequent year at the Texas Theatre.

Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Jon Gries will appear on the Oak Cliff film house on April 1 for a particular screening of the cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite, according to a joint announcement from the Texas Theatre and the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

The screening will have a live Q&A session with Heder, Ramirez and Gries, who respectively performed the title character, Napoleon’s friend Pedro and Napoleon’s Uncle Rico within the sleeper indie hit from 2004, which Hess directed.

Tickets will go on sale starting on Friday. VIP passes will also be available to purchase a seat in the first 10 rows of the theater that will additionally give holders access to a special meet-and-greet with the screening’s visitors and an autographed movie poster.

Hess wrote Napoleon Dynamite with his spouse, Jerusha Hess. It was based on a short black and white film called Peluca that he made two years earlier while finding out film at Brigham Young University. Heder performed the Napoleon Dynamite character, who tries to purchase a wig for one in every of his high school friends who shaves off all of his hair because «it made his head real hot.» It is basically a foundation for the Napoleon Dynamite universe.

The 2004 film that expanded on Peluca obtained a screening at that 12 months’s Sundance Film Festival, where it grew to become one of the talked-about films of the unbiased film festival. Fox Searchlight Pictures and MTV Films inked a deal to distribute the film the following summer, and it became one of many 12 months’s biggest sleeper hits, according to an oral history of the film printed in The Deseret News.

Hess primarily based occasions of the film on his own life about a super awkward teen who wears nondescript T-shirts and snow boots in a small rural town. He lives with his Uncle Rico and his bratty older brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) and is raised by his grandmother (Sandy Martin).

Some studio heads advised adding some big names to the cast to help increase its earnings potential. According to The Deseret News, a casting director steered changing Heder with Jake Gyllenhaal, however Hess insisted that Heder was the only actor who may play Napoleon Dynamite, calling the move «creatively, a dealbreaker. It was a task Jon was born to play.»

The film shows the boring life he really leads, as the character continuously tries to liven up his existence with his love for mythical hybrid animals, obtaining ninja skills and happening fictitious trips to Alaska to shoot 50 wolverines with «a freaking 12-gauge, what do you think?»

He becomes friends with a fellow student named Pedro, who decides to undertake a futile try and run for sophistication president in the most awkward means attainable, and a shy, ambitious girl named Deb (Tina Majorino). Dynamite’s Uncle Rico, who brags about his high school football days while pursuing fruitless, get-rich quick schemes, constantly finds ways to interfere with Napoleon’s life.

The film grew to become the idea for a 2010 animated series on Fox with voices of all of the principal cast, together with Diedrich Bader as the town’s hand-to-hand dojo combat master Rex. There’s additionally been talk from cast members Ramirez and Heder a few potential sequel.