Trailer Park Boys Stroll The Red Carpet For Movie Premiere
Posted October 4, 2006 12:00 pm.
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The Trailer Park Boys make the leap to the big screen this week as their film opens across the country on Friday.
At Toronto’s Mod Club for Tuesday night’s red carpet premiere, the actors who play Ricky, Julian and Bubbles showed up in character with hopes their movie would be a success.
“I’m hoping there’s ladies in there and I’m pretty sure there is,” Bubbles enthused.
The trio from the Sunnyvale trailer park has managed quite a feat in making their TV show a success over six seasons. Director, writer and co-creator Mike Clattenburg believes fans will pay to see the film version, which had a modest budget of $5 million.
“It’s a cinematic experience,” Clattenburg insists. “We didn’t want to spend hours lighting stuff … we consciously didn’t want to get too glamorous. … (But still it’s) very worthy of 10 Canadian dollars!”
The film sees the characters out of jail and planning a heist that’d give them enough money to live on comfortably. They decide the best thing to do is steal a whack of change rather than paper money. So they go about knocking over parking metres, and then try to figure out how to lift a bowl of coins from a movie theatre.
Clattenburg admits there’s been buzz in Hollywood about the boys – partly because well-known Canadian producer Ivan Reitman took part in the making of the film.
He admits not everyone enjoys the show – mainly because of the profanities, but says most of the words the boys use are nonsensical.
The movie is being released in Canada on the country’s Thanksgiving weekend – a time when studios start putting out their major award contenders.
“I’m absolutely sure we’re probably going to get eight to 10 Oscar nominations,” deadpans Clattenburg. “If it doesn’t, I will be shocked!”
The show enters its seventh season next spring.
