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Directed by | Matt Hullum |
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Story by | Burnie Burns |
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Music by | Jeff Williams |
Cinematography | Philip Roy |
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102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.4 million |
Box office | $1.6 million |
Lazer Team is a 2015 American science fiction action comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by Matt Hullum. The first feature film produced by Rooster Teeth, it stars Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn, Allie DeBerry, and Alan Ritchson. The film follows the Lazer Team, a group of four who find themselves responsible for the fate of the planet upon discovering an alien crash site containing a battle suit.
Lazer Team is produced by Hullum, Burns, and Doreen Copeland. Burns and Hullum also co-wrote the script, alongside Rooster Teeth employees Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan. Funding for the film was largely raised through a successful Indiegogo campaign, raising over $2.4 million in a month. Filming began in October 2014, with principal photography taking place in Austin and New Mexico. Lazer Team premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 24, 2015, and was released theatrically on January 27, 2016. As of February 10, 2016, the film is also available on YouTube Red.
In 1977, the government has secretly decoded a transmission, sent by the alien Antareans, which says that a deadly race known as the Worg are coming to destroy Earth. To help defend Earth, the Antareans have sent a powerful battle suit for the "Champion of Earth" to wear. The government begins training Adam from birth to be the Champion. Thirty-eight years later, Officer Anthony Hagan is called to a party where Zachary "Zach" Spencer is causing trouble and where he runs into his daughter and Zach's girlfriend, Mindy. After tasing Zach, Hagan drives him away, only to find Woodrow "Woody" Johnson and Herman Mendoza shooting unauthorized fireworks. Herman defiantly launches a massive rocket. The firework strikes an incoming UFO and causes it to crash nearby.