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Made for a high-school project, we present the first official Supergun Film,
free for all to download. Unfortunately, the high quality version is unavailable
at the moment due to concentration on Macbeth 3000, but will be added soon.
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 Synopsis
A much abbreviated, bastardized version of King Lear, King Lear 2000 is a random smattering of scenes from the play, turned into
a Pythonesque farce.
After Banishing Cordelia to France, King Lear is banished by his daughters Regan and Goneril, and wanders the wilderness looking
for stuff to do. Meanwhile, the treacherous Edmund tricks his father into banishing his brother Edgar. Edgar disguises himself as
a classic comicbook superhero to penetrate the kingdom and reclaim his throne.
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Production Synopsis
By: Bill Stepec
This revered Supergun Cinema gem was a video presentation for English class. After the local acclaim of Hamlet,
(and the fact that Geoff, Harmeet and Denis were in the same class) it was decided that an unofficial sequel would be
their final project. After receiving an assignment, Denis ran home, cracked open a bottle of mysterious "Orange Liquor"
and began penning the script on his Shakespeare encyclopedia. The script took excerpts from the Shakespearean play in
order to make a comparative analysis on the lack of a female parental figure in the lives of the tragic heroes, and
combined them with the drunken silliness of retro-pop culture references.
In short, a bizarre kind of comedy was born. This 30min slapstick Shakespeare adaptation follows the stories of King Lear (Denis Logan)
and Edgar (Denis Logan) as they seek to dethrone the tyrant Edmund (Zafar Raja). Featuring such memorable lines like:
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"Edmund was only two when your mother left! How would you know anyhow?" -Gloucester (Harmeet Bindra)
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"Goneril is coming!" -Cast
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"Why? Why, God, why? I am a man more sinned against, than the sinning!" -King Lear (Denis Logan)
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"I'm dead!" -Osric (Mike Venner)
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Trivia
- Originally, Bill Stepec was cast as Edgar, and even filmed a whole scene in character, but due
to a sudden visit to Grandma, the role had to be re-cast and the scene re-shot the next day
with Denis in the dual lead.
- The Batman mask worn in this movie cost a lot of money, and Denis' mom threw it out. She still owes Harmeet's dad $70, but neither parent knows it!
- Ryan Gilhooly received 3 bloody noses due to Ben Davis smashing him into a break-away table.
- Director Geoff Meech swore it would be the last Shakespeare film SGC was going to do.
- There have been a total 6 break-away tables in Supergun cinema productions.
- Bill showed up on the final shoot date to participate in the climactic battle, but his choreographed opponent ignored him,
so he spent the entire battle running around with a crowbar, attacking invisible aliens.
- This film featured the first use of SGC Wake-Up Juice. Check back soon for the recipe.
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Cast
- King Lear... Denis Logan
- Edgar... Denis Logan
- Edmund... Zafar Raja
- Gloucester... Harmeet Bindra
- Kent... Ben Davis
- Cordelia... Daphne Lenihan
- Albany... Matthew Snowball
- Goneril... Case Resendes
- Cornwall... Geoff W. Meech
- Regan... Kate Hortop
- Servant... Nelson Granados
- Nurse... Katherine Mayne
- Strange Brown Guy... Harmeet Bindra
- Also starring:
- Ryan "Table" Gilhooly
- Chris "Bloody" Bohren
- Matt "Pitch White" Seguin
- Greg "Random" Andrews
- Stephan "German Sausage" Kegel
- Jonathan "ADD" Pysancyzn
- Breanne "We Have Your Hoe" Drennan
- Jaime "Matrix" Reardin
- Sara "Darth" Rodrigues
- Little Girl (?)
- Claire "Battle Axe" Hortop
- Bill "Wake Up Juice" Stepec
- Doug "Wakka Wakka Wakka" Watkinson
- Mike Venner
- Robbie "Whitey" Miller
- James "GOOLE" Docherty
- Why do you read the credits?
- Leonard Nimoy as Himself
Crew
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Director... Geoff W. Meech
- Executive Producers... Geoff Meech, Harmeet Bindra, Denis Logan, Zafar Raja
- Original Story... Bill "Shakes" 'speare
- Writer... Denis Logan
- 1st AD... Denis Logan
- Camera Operators... Geoff W. Meech, Denis Logan, Zafar Raja, Harmeet Bindra
- Editor... Geoff Meech
- Carbon Arcs... Ben Davis
- Sound... Harmeet Bindra, Geoff Meech
- Set Up and Lights... Harmeet Bindra, Denis Logan
- Take Down... Zafar Raja
- People in the corner of the Lear-monkey scene... We don't know!
- Assistant Editor... Denis Logan
- Visual/Special Effects... Geoff Meech
- The Best People in the World... Harmeet Bindra, Denis Logan, Zafar Raja
- Credits Done By... Harmeet Bindra, Denis Logan, Zafar Raja
- God... Steve Vai
- Jesus... Matthew Good
- Boom... Kapow!
- Key Grip... Chris Bohren
- Shemps... James Docherty, Zafar Raja
- Catering... Margo Meech, Kate Hortop, Harmeet Bindra
- For more credits, watch the damn movie.
- Special thanks... Everyone on the production and of course... you... the audience...
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