‘Gentlemen Broncos’ is set to kick off Fantastic Fest 2009

Via the Fantastic Fest twitter we have been informed that ‘Gentlemen Broncos’ will open Fantastic Fest 2009. With more updates coming our way in the next hour we wanted to give you a breakdown of the opening night film. Here is a synopsis of the film:

Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge),   is a lovable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker.

And here is what the guys from Fantastic Fest had to say for this selection:

A couple of months ago, the Fantastic Fest programming team had the pleasure of viewing an early cut of Gentlemen Broncos and absolutely loved it.   In his third film, Hess continues to craft his very rich alternate-reality universe dominated by awkward but lovable losers, inappropriate fabric pairings and charmingly homespun handicrafts.   The themes of creativity and fantasy (let alone the interspersed movie-within-a-movie recreations of our protagonist’s sci-fi epic Yeast Lords) make this the perfect film to kick off the 5th edition of Fantastic Fest.   We will be announcing more details about this very special screening and after-party in subsequent press releases, but suffice it to say we are ecstatic to be kicking off the festival with the likes of director Jared Hess, screenwriter Jerusha Hess and star Jemaine Clement live in person.

For people that are fans of Jemaine Clement in ‘Eagle vs Shark’ or ‘Flight of the Conchords’ mix that with the humor of Jared and Jerusha Hess (‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and ‘Peluca’) then you should absolutely love this film. It also stars Sam Rockwell so that’s an instant win for me. Fantastic Fest 2009 will run September 24th – October 1st, if you aren’t there then you obviously aren’t a true fan of film and badassary, plain and simple.