Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland is an upcoming American comedy film, based on Spike TV's Blue Mountain State. It stars Alan Ritchson as Thad Castle, Darin Brooks as Alex Moran, and Chris Romano as Sammy Cacciatore. The film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina and will follow Alex and Sammy's senior year at Blue Mountain State, which the fourth season of the show was intended to do before it was cancelled.

Cast

• Darin Brooks as Alex Moran
• Alan Ritchson as Thad Castle
• Chris Romano as Sampson "Sammy" Cacciatore
• Sam Jones III as Craig Shilo
• Page Kennedy as Radon Randell
• Frankie Shaw as Mary Jo Cacciatore
• Ed Marinaro as Martin "Marty" Daniels
• Rob Ramsay as Donald "Donnie" Schrab
• Jimmy Tatro
• Barry Ratcliffe as The Auctioneer
• James Cade as Harmon Tedesco
• Omari Newton as Larry Summers

Production

In March 2013, Ed Marinaro stated in an interview with Class Act Sports that he was working on a Blue Mountain State film. He continued to hint on Twitter at some 'behind-the-scenes' work being done on said movie.^[2] In early March 2014, Page Kennedy started hinting at Blue Mountain State reunion project on Instagram, Vine and Twitter along with Darin Brooks, Kelly Kruger, Alan Ritchson, Sam Jones III, Frankie Shaw and Romanski.

On April 8, 2014, Blue Mountain State: The Movie was officially announced. On April 15, the production launched a Kickstarter campaign, much like the hugely successful 2013 campaign by Veronica Mars to get the cancelled show made into a feature film. The project's goal was to raise $1.5 million by May 15 in order to fund the film. There were rewards for donating to campaign, such as personalized tweets from the cast (for donating $10), shot and pint glasses with the BMS logo ($20), and a speaking role in the film (for a $10,000 donation).

On May 11, 2014, the Kickstarter goal of $1.5 million was reached. On May 15, 2014 the Kickstarter campaign ended, with the final funds raised being $1,911,827 from 23,999 backers.^[3]

In May 2014, it was announced Jay Chandrasekhar would be the director of the film.^[4] However on September 28, 2014, Lev L. Spiro was announced as the new director of BMS: The Movie.^[5] The crew started filming in late 2014 on location in Wilmington, North Carolina.^[6][7]

On December 14, 2014, Alan Ritchson tweeted that filming had completed.^[8]

Release

Darin Brooks announced the film is scheduled to be released in September 2015.^[9]

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