Ready for the KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM trailer? Director Joe Lynch turns LARPing on its head.

Ready for the KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM trailer? Director Joe Lynch turns LARPing on its head.

If you put FIREFLY‘s Summer Glau, TRUE BLOOD‘s Ryan Kwanten, GAME OF THRONES‘ Peter Dinklage, and Steve Zahn in a movie together, I’m already interested… but wait until you see the movie they’re in.  Director Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2) is about to show you the world of LARPing in a way you’ll never forget. KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM made a big splash at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con (I regretfully missed the press junket), and now you can see why everyone is excited about this rather fun project. Check out the trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.

In this humorous fantasy adventure from IndieVest Pictures, Joe (Ryan Kwanten) is a heavy metal rocker who’s just gone through a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Beth (Margarita Levieva). His concerned roommates (Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage) kidnap him to their LARP (Live Action Role Playing) gathering, where he enters a realm of fantasy escapism in which pretend knights, elves, and barbarians clash with foam weaponry on a mock battlefield. When Joe’s “sorcerer” roommate (Zahn) inadvertently summons a deadly succubus that takes Beth’s seductive form, bloody reality crashes down upon their fantasy world. Once LARPers start to turn up dead, the make-believe wizards and warriors must become the real life heroes they have been pretending to be in order to conquer the evil that has been unleashed.

No release date given yet.  Follow the film on Facebook.

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Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff.