You can't escape the ape! Romance, punk rock, anarchy, random destruction, aliens, a trip to hell and a guy in a gorilla suit.
The people behind three popular amateur comedy teams came together in Chicago, under one roof, for one shoot, in March 2002. The cast was made up of Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans from Chicago's GMP Pictures (creators of Oranges the Movie, Blunt Justice and The Long Walk Home), Jay Bauman and Lisa Renley from Milwaukee's Blanc Screen Cinema (creators of Pervert Goes Home and The Trouble With Her Uterus), and Garrett Gilchrist from Connecticut/Los Angeles' Orange Cow Productions (creators of Excaliburger and The Animal Game). (Orange Cow Productions' David Ashe contributed some rewriting work on the script from the safety of Florida.) For the first time, they would all be acting together. Director Mike Stoklasa wrote the 60-page script in five hours. It would be shot in 8 days. The shoot was a study in injury, illness, vomit, violence, depression and pain. The movie was Gorilla Interrupted.
"GORILLA INTERRUPTED" is story of Ray, a man with an anger management problem who is kidnapped by aliens, transformed into a gorilla, and pursued by Jacob, a psychotic big game hunter. It is also the story of Dex, a science nerd who constructs the most terrible battlesuit the world has ever seen, but is too shy to reveal his true feelings to Julie, the woman he loves. It is also the story of Sid, a punk rocker who treats everyone like dirt, especially Dex. Julie enjoys spending time with the shy Dex, but really wants to have a good time with the cool, hard-rocking Sid. When aliens kidnap Julie, and steal Dex's battlesuit, and both wind up in the hands of the prince of darkness himself, Satan, it is up to these four unlikely heroes to save the world from utter destruction. The world needed superheroes. Instead, it got these losers. Is the world screwed? Find out in "Gorilla Interrupted" ...
GMP Pictures presents
In association with Blanc Screen Cinema and Orange Cow Productions
An Ow My Movie Production of
Jay Bauman
Rich Evans
Mike Stoklasa
Garrett Gilchrist
and Lisa Renley in
GORILLA INTERRUPTED
conceived, produced and directed by Mike Stoklasa
From a screenplay by Mike Stoklasa and David Ashe
A GMP Pictures Release
poor rich Evans
redbaron932 2 months ago
Absolutely brilliant
RepublicOfVietnam 1 year ago