Probably the most awkward teen motion pictures about one of many world’s most awkward teenagers of all time is getting a special screening subsequent 12 months at the Texas Theatre.

Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Jon Gries will appear on 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 performed the title character, Napoleon’s friend Pedro and Napoleon’s Uncle Rico within the sleeper indie hit from 2004, which Hess directed.

Tickets will go on sale starting on Friday. VIP passes will even be available to buy a seat in the first 10 rows of the theater that will also give holders access to a particular meet-and-greet with the screening’s friends and an autographed film poster.

Hess wrote Napoleon Dynamite with his spouse, Jerusha Hess. It was based mostly on a brief black and white film called Peluca that he made years earlier while finding out film at Brigham Younger University. Heder played the Napoleon Dynamite character, who tries to buy a wig for certainly one of his high school friends who shaves off all of his hair because «it made his head real hot.» It is basically a foundation for the Napoleon Dynamite universe.

The 2004 film that expanded on Peluca got a screening at that yr’s Sundance Film Festival, where it turned one of the crucial talked-about films of the unbiased film festival. Fox Searchlight Footage and MTV Films inked a deal to distribute the film the next summer time, and it turned one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits, according to an oral history of the film printed in The Deseret News.

Hess primarily based occasions of the film on his own life a few 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 urged adding some big names to the cast to help enhance its earnings potential. According to The Deseret News, a casting director instructed replacing Heder with Jake Gyllenhaal, but Hess insisted that Heder was the only actor who might play Napoleon Dynamite, calling the move «creatively, a dealbreaker. It was a task Jon was born to play.»

The film shows the boring life he actually leads, as the character always tries to liven up his existence with his love for mythical hybrid animals, acquiring ninja skills and occurring 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 try to run for class president in probably the most awkward means doable, 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 interfere with Napoleon’s life.

The film turned the idea for a 2010 animated series on Fox with voices of all the principal cast, together with Diedrich Bader as the town’s hand-to-hand dojo fight master Rex. There’s also been talk from cast members Ramirez and Heder a couple of possible sequel.