One of the vital awkward teen movies about one of the world’s most awkward teens of all time is getting a special screening subsequent year at the Texas Theatre.

Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Jon Gries will seem at the Oak Cliff film house on April 1 for a special screening of the cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite, according to a joint announcement from the Texas Theatre and the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

The screening will have a live Q&A session with Heder, Ramirez and Gries, who respectively played the title character, Napoleon’s friend Pedro and Napoleon’s Uncle Rico in the sleeper indie hit from 2004, which Hess directed.

Tickets will go on sale starting on Friday. VIP passes will also be available to purchase a seat within the first 10 rows of the theater that will additionally give holders access to a particular meet-and-greet with the screening’s company and an autographed movie poster.

Hess wrote Napoleon Dynamite with his wife, Jerusha Hess. It was primarily based on a short black and white film called Peluca that he made years earlier while learning film at Brigham Younger University. Heder performed the Napoleon Dynamite character, who tries to purchase a wig for one among his high school friends who shaves off all of his hair because «it made his head real hot.» It’s basically a basis for the Napoleon Dynamite universe.

The 2004 film that expanded on Peluca acquired a screening at that 12 months’s Sundance Film Festival, the place it grew to become one of the most talked-about films of the unbiased film festival. Fox Searchlight Footage and MTV Films inked a deal to distribute the film the next summer season, and it turned one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits, according to an oral history of the film published in The Deseret News.

Hess based events of the film on his own life a couple of super awkward teen who wears nondescript T-shirts and snow boots in a small rural town. He lives with his Uncle Rico and his bratty older brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) and is raised by his grandmother (Sandy Martin).

Some studio heads advised adding some big names to the cast to help boost its earnings potential. According to The Deseret News, a casting director steered changing Heder with Jake Gyllenhaal, but Hess insisted that Heder was the only actor who may play Napoleon Dynamite, calling the move «creatively, a dealbreaker. It was a job Jon was born to play.»

The film shows the boring life he actually leads, because the character always tries to liven up his existence with his love for mythical hybrid animals, acquiring ninja skills and happening fictitious journeys to Alaska to shoot 50 wolverines with «a freaking 12-gauge, what do you think?»

He turns into friends with a fellow student named Pedro, who decides to undertake a futile attempt to run for sophistication president in essentially the most awkward means potential, and a shy, ambitious girl named Deb (Tina Majorino). Dynamite’s Uncle Rico, who brags about his high school football days while pursuing fruitless, get-rich quick schemes, constantly finds ways to intervene with Napoleon’s life.

The film grew to become the basis for a 2010 animated series on Fox with voices of all the principal cast, including Diedrich Bader as the town’s hand-to-hand dojo fight master Rex. There’s also been talk from cast members Ramirez and Heder about a doable sequel.

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