![]() ![]() ![]() “No one gets hit in the face with a soccer ball,” Meese said, referencing “ Top Soccer Shootout Ever with Scott Sterling” the show’s most successful comedy sketch that helped put BYUtv on the map and to date has 90 million views on YouTube. “Go West” features the 10 original “Studio C” cast members taking on multiple characters over the course of roughly 80 minutes, but the actors want to be clear: Fans won’t find specific nods to their BYUtv days - no Shoulder Angel or references to lobster bisque. Evander Lillianquist (Matt Meese), who at the start of the film cheerfully proclaims to the company: “I have no doubt we shall reach Oregon Territory before the first frost slaughters us all!” ![]() They encounter a slew of quirky characters along the way, like Capt. Her sister Cora Jenkins (Mallory Everton) has, as Astin narrates, “an on-and-off-again relationship with dysentery.” Aveline Jenkins (Madsen) is a widow who seems to bring doom to every man she loves. The film’s premise is simple enough: Two sisters travel west from Independence, Missouri, to be with family. “But we really hope that as people are kind of in movie mode, want to get some air conditioning and a break from the heat, they’ll see our preview before ‘Mission: Impossible’ or whatever they’re gonna go see and say, ‘We should bring the family.’”Ībout ‘Go West’: ‘Studio C,’ but pioneer style “To throw our hat in the ring in a month like this is both exciting and a little scary, because you don’t know if it will help or hurt or somewhere in the middle,” Natalie Madsen said. While “Go West” capitalizes on their comedic strengths - and stays true to the family-friendly brand of comedy from “Studio C” and their own company, JK! Studios - it’s also an experiment of sorts to turn what they’ve done together for more than a decade into a full-fledged film. There was a palpable sense of eager anticipation - releasing a movie is a goal that predates “Studio C.” But there was also some trepidation. 11 - four of the original “Studio C” cast members hopped on a Zoom call with the Deseret News. Life after ‘Studio C’: An inside look at JK! Studios, the new venture from BYUtv’s former starsĪ week before the release of the film - which landed in Utah theaters on July 19 and hit theaters nationally on Aug.With a budget of $100 million, the new “Barbie” movie just about depleted the world’s supply of pink paint.ĭirector Greta Gerwig’s fluorescent pink Barbie Land attracted worldwide attention and hit theaters July 21 - the same day as another big-budget movie, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”ĭuring that same weekend, sandwiched between those two summer blockbusters, was “ Go West,” a new movie that is markedly less glamorous (one of the characters has dysentery) and had a substantially lower budget (more on par with a microbudget indie film).īut viewers shouldn’t be so quick to write it off, the film’s creators say.įor starters, there’s the narrator lending his voice to the movie: Sean Astin, beloved for his role as Sam in “The Lord of the Rings.” And then there’s the primary cast of 10 that brings what they describe as the “Monty Python of the Oregon Trail” film to life: The original members of BYUtv’s sketch comedy show “Studio C.” Editor’s note: This article originally published July 14.
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