The Lazer Team is a 2015 American science fiction comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Matt Hullum. The first film produced by Rooster Teeth, starring Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn, Allie DeBerry, and Alan Ritchson. The film follows Tim Lazer, a group of four who find themselves responsible for the destiny of the planet after finding the location of an alien accident containing a battle suit.
The film is produced by Hullum, Burns, and Doreen Copeland. Burns and Hullum also co-wrote the script, along with employees Rooster Teeth, Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan. Funding for the Lazer Team was largely generated through the successful Indiegogo campaign, generating over $ 2.4 million in a month. The filming began in October 2014, with major photography taking place in Austin and New Mexico.
The Lazer Team airs on Fantastic Fest on September 24, 2015. Through Amplify and Tugg, the film is theatrically released on January 27, 2016 as a cinema-in-demand model. The movie was also released to YouTube Red on the same day, and added to the Rooster Teeth streaming service Rooster Teeth on November 3, 2017. Lazer Team received mixed reviews and $ 1 , 6 million with a budget of $ 2.4 million.
The sequel, Lazer Team 2 , was released on November 13, 2017.
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Plot
In 1977, the government had secretly translated the transmission, sent by the foreign Antareans, who warned of a deadly race known as Worg, came to destroy Earth. To help defend the Earth, Antareans has sent a strong fighting suit for "Champion of Earth" to wear. The government began to train a boy named Adam from birth to become the Champion. Eighty-eight years later, Officer Anthony Hagan caught Zachary "Zach" Spencer for causing trouble at a party and began to oust him, only to find Woodrow "Woody" Johnson and Herman Mendoza firing unauthorized fireworks. Herman challenged launching a large rocket that attacked the incoming UFO and caused it to fall nearby.
UFOs open to reveal the armor, and the four men each took a piece. The setting is active when all four parts are worn, and each part becomes irreversible and is genetically locked to the wearer. Zach discovers that his arm cannons can fire energy projectiles, Hagan's gloves can create an energy field, Woody's helmet improves his intelligence from time to time, and Herman's boots can make him run at super speed. The military emerges and captures the group. Angry that their preparations had been threatened and that Zach had posted the swafoto with a lawsuit (summoning four "Tim Lazer"), Colonel Emory gave Adam orders to train them in just four days, after which Worg was scheduled to arrive. Meanwhile, a group of soldiers were possessed by a small robot insect sent by Worg, and began to hunt down Team Lazer and have Mindy, Hagan's daughter.
The responsible officer decides to try and amputate the lawsuit from the team, but when taken to the hospital, they run away using the suit's ability. They were intercepted by Adam, but they worked together to create a powerful energy shield and knocked him unconscious. After escaping, they hide in the cabin of Hagan's ex-wife. Zach calls Wory-controlled Mindy on Skype and gives him his location. He came and attacked the group, but they delayed it and Woody communicated with Worg through the device behind his neck. Before they can finish the negotiations, Zach rips the device and destroys himself, destroying the cabin. They were then pursued by the possessed army, but escaped.
The team went on to the Zach and Mindy high schools, where they discovered that the Antarean ships had landed on the city's soccer field, creating a gigantic force around it. Worg sends a message, calling Champions of Earth to fight. The Lazer Team was once again ambushed by soldiers owned, but used teamwork to kill the four of them. With the pressure of saving the planet that burdened them, they all decided to hide except Hagan, who surrendered to the military. However, seeing his full potential in the team, Adam frees Hagan and they sneak into the stadium where a crowd has formed around the UFO. They found other team members there and reassembled. They hijacked a police car and rammed him into the battlefield, reaching the football pitch.
Worg's soldiers came with identical armor. Woody intercepts transmissions from the ship, revealing that instead of war they are part of an elimination tournament in which Antareans destroys the loser's planets until one remains. The Lazer Team proved unsuccessful in defeating Worg himself, so Adam began to divert his attention using anti-riot equipment from police cars. Adam was killed by Worg with dark matter rays, indirectly teaching the team how to achieve this with a lawsuit. Lazer Team and Worg fire dark matter come together, creating a vortex. Four separate suits and Tim Lazer detonated from the battlefield, but the Worg and Antarean ships were consumed. The team was greeted by a large crowd outside. Emory arrives and declares that the war is not over yet, and Tim Lazer will go into space.
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Cast
- Burnie Burns as Anthony Hagan, a traffic policeman and a member of Team Lazer. Hagan wore his left arm, allowing him to produce an energy shield.
- Gavin Free as Woody Johnson, member of Team Lazer. Woody wore the suit jacket, increased his intelligence and gave him other extras like the X-ray vision.
- Michael Jones as Zach Spencer, a member of the Lazer Team and Mindy's girlfriend. Zach wore the right arm of the shirt, which was an energy cannon.
- Colton Dunn as Herman Mendoza, a former football athlete and member of Team Lazer. Herman wore the suit jacket, which made him run at a super speed.
- Allie DeBerry as Mindy Hagan, Anthony's daughter, and Zach's boyfriend.
- Alan Ritchson as Adam, the Earth Champion
- Steve Shearer as Colonel Emory, commander of Project Perseus.
- Kirk Johnson as Vandenbloom Officer
- Benjamin Scott as General Cale
- Johnny Walter as Murdoch, leader of a group of Project Perseus soldiers taken over by the Worg parasite.
- Chris Demarais as Franksen
- Jeremy St. James as Bean
The film also contains the brilliant acting of many other actors, most of whom are employees at Rooster Teeth. These names include Barbara Dunkelman, Lindsay Jones, Arryn Zech, Kara Eberle, Jon Risinger, Josh Flanagan, Matt Hullum, Gus Sorola, Shannon McCormick, Blaine Gibson, Brandon Farmahini, Joel Heyman, Yomary Cruz, Kerry Shawcross, Adam Ellis, and Miles Luna. Country musician Dale Watson, film critic Korey Coleman, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, YouTuber Justine Ezarik, comedian improvisation Tom Booker, and Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson also had a brilliant acting in the film.
Production
Development
The concept for Rooster Teeth's first direct action feature is in its development since 2010. It was first announced at Halo Fest during PAX Prime 2011. Burns stated they drew inspiration from, "many of the science fiction works we have grown," but, "not make a parody and we do not send - we make our own movies. "The effects on the script include" team movies "like The Mighty Ducks and Cool Runnings . According to co-authors Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan, the third action was completely restructured by them a week before the filming began.
While writing the story, Burns did not imagine himself playing Hagan, saying "I tend to be the bigger type of guy, loud and talking fast... I have to really lower it to play it."
In February 2014, Burns confirmed that the company will launch a crowdfunding campaign for the film as a way to offer more support options while gaining publicity. Freddie Wong is a consultant in shaping their campaigns. Indiegogo's page for the film was launched in June 2014. Fundraising reached the $ 650,000 goal in less than 10 hours and broke Indiegogo's record for the fastest film campaign to reach $ 700,000. In three days, the Lazer Team broke $ 1 million. Lazer Team holds the record for the highest funded film campaign in Indiegogo with more than $ 2.4 million collected. On the last day of the campaign, Rooster Teeth released a special introduction to a fan who will play a role; within 20 seconds of the incident to be aired, 535 people bought the price perk, because it slowed the ticket system on the site. All 535 people are used for crowd scenes in movies. Hullum stated that the crew had been contacted by several distribution companies, media companies, and agents acting since the campaign began. Burns reinforced, explaining that film budgets increased when the campaigns made more money:
The initial budget for talent is based on making the film at a minimum with us throwing the rest of the expected budget. For example, that means using talent almost exclusively from in-house. As budgets grow, so is our chance to approach all types of talent. The same goes for Visual FX, the quality of props and costumes, lighting, crew, etc.
Casting calls and auditions for light speaking roles are held for participants in RTX 2014. Additional stowages for extras are held during filming. Blaine Gibson also auditioned for Zach's role.
Filming
The subject of photography begins on October 14, 2014. Filming takes place over 40 days in Austin and New Mexico. During the first week of production, filming took place at Austin National Guard Armory, as well as the University of Texas at Austin. Filming wrapped on December 13th. Reshoot begins at the end of February 2015.
To avoid interrupting the online video schedule Achievement of Achievements, Free and Jones pre-recorded content for a month before filming. During filming, the two came to the office, "half a day we spent" to film the video rather than sleep for a few hours before returning to the scene.
Release
The Lazer Team was aired in Austin at the Fantastic Fest on September 24, 2015, followed by Canadian premiere at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival on October 16th, the premiere of Europe at Film4 FrightFest on October 24th, and the premiere of Australia on RTX Australia on January 22, 2016. Lazer Team is one of the first titles in the newly launched Fullscreen movie feature division. Lazer Team has a limited theatrical release on 27-28 January 2016, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Theaters are chosen through the Tugg platform, which determines interest in certain theaters. This sets a Tugg record in Australia when it sells 800 tickets to a theater at the George Street Cinema Building, in Sydney.
The film reportedly earned $ 1 million through pre-sale tickets. Starting February 10, 2016, the movie is available for streaming as part of YouTube's new Red Pay Paid subscription service. On 3 November 2017, shortly before the launch of the sequel, Lazer Team was made available to FIRST members on the Rooster Teeth site.
Reception
box office
Lazer Team plays in theaters as a cinema-in-demand model in which if fans gather a number of people who want to see a movie, the producer will find the theater for a one-time show. Distributors manage 480 screenings (for one night only) both in the US and abroad. The picture is also walled four to run 35 screens in the US. It played 47 times in the UK and fans lined up around the block. In Australia, it is filtered 65 times. The Lazer Team eventually generated more than $ 1.1 million in the US and more than $ 1.6 million globally, according to Rentrak. The film can not cover its $ 2.4 million budget in the theater window.
Critical response
At Rotten Tomatoes, the film earned approval ratings of 56% based on 34 reviews, averaging 5.1/10. At Metacritic, the film had a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 13 critics, showing "mixed reviews or average ".
Scott Weinberg, writing for Nerdist , praised the friendly, 80s and "shocking" movie effects, calling it "a lot of weird, fun stuff." Matt Donato of We Got This Covered dubbed it, "Anti- Pixel ." Marc Savlov from The Austin Chronicle gave him mixed reviews, writing "Edited sharply while starting across the comic map - Lazer Team has a share of groaners, to be sure - this is a solid debut of the Austin game and village hero comedy page. " New York Times Neil Genzlinger criticized the movie that says" The Lazer team ended up organizing themselves for the sequel, but it was a strong thought "and" What they - or people are playing - really need to learn to do is act. "
Matt Fagerholm of RogerEbert.com strongly criticized the film, writes "The film is, in essence, a product of fame and money without the slightest effort."
Sequel
On August 5, 2016, Burnie Burns and Gavin Free announced that Tim Lazer's sequel was illuminated by Rooster Teeth by partnering with YouTube Red and they officially started pre-production on the film.
In December 2016, Matt Hullum confirmed Rooster Teeth aims to shoot Lazer Team 2 at the end of Spring in Texas followed by a release in 2017.
Daniel Fabelo will be co-directing the sequel with Hullum. Nichole Bloom and Victoria Pratt also joined the cast.
Starting April 2017, filming for the sequel is over. On August 25, 2017, it was confirmed that the film was written by Burns, Hullum, and Fabelo.
On October 12, 2017, Rooster Teeth released a trailer for a sequel that revealed the movie's release date to November 13, 2017 at theaters and November 22, 2017 at YouTube Red.
References
External links
- Official website
- Lazer Team on IMDb
- Lazer Team at Rotten Tomatoes
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