Searchlight Pictures is flipping on its siren to warn moviegoers about another round of the Cat Game because Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers 3 officially rolls into theaters on August 7, 2026.
The newly announced release date for Super Troopers 3 places the film in direct competition with Will Gluck’s latest feature, One Night Only, a film that sounds oddly like The Purge, but for romantic encounters. In One Night Only, “two strangers, a man, and a woman, scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal in their society.” Also opening on August 7, 2026, is an untitled movie from New Line.
Who’s returning for Super Troopers 3?
Broken Lizard troupe member Jay Chandrasekhar will direct the sequel in addition to reprising his role as Thorny, with Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, who are back to play Farva, Mac, Foster, and Rabbit, respectively.
In addition to the core Broken Lizard crew, Brian Cox returns as Captain John O’Hagan, with Marisa Coughlan playing Ursula Hanson. Oscar winner Nat Faxon (Bad Teacher, Club Dread, The Descendants) joins the threequel as Captain Todd Markowski, with Chace Crawford (The Boys, Gossip Girl, Reunion) playing Baker Buchanan, and Andrew Dismukes (The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, Saturday Night Live, Call Me Brother) as Coy Burns.
“Broken Lizard has been part of the Searchlight family for over two decades, and we couldn’t be more thrilled for another entry in the Super Troopers saga,” Searchlight President Matthew Greenfield said in August. “Super Troopers has a way of making the absurd feel inevitable, and we can’t wait to bring audiences along on another adventure with these characters who leave a trail of joy and laughter, wherever their patrols may take them.”
Chandrasekhar added his voice to the hype, saying, “Broken Lizard is excited to help bring the theatrical comedy back. To America, we say, ‘It’s mustache-growing time!’”
In 2001, Super Troopers unleashed its signature brand of screwball comedy on unsuspecting audiences. The film is about five Vermont state troopers who are avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up. To save their jobs, they attempt to outdo the local police department by being the first to solve a crime. Super Troopers grossed $23.1 million at the global box office. Nearly two decades later, Broken Lizard returned with a sequel, Super Troopers 2, which found the group at the border between the U.S. and Canada. The 2018 sequel banked $31.6 million worldwide.
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