Lloyd the Conqueror

Lloyd The Conqueror
	Film poster
Directed by	Michael Peterson
Written by	Michael Peterson; Andrew Herman;
Starring	Evan Williams; Mike Smith; Brian Posehn; Harland Williams;
Production; companies	Fresh Dog Productions; Matt Kelly Films;
Distributed by	Alliance
Release date	24 September 2011 (Calgary International Film Festival); 30 November 2012 (Canada);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Lloyd the Conqueror is a 2011 Canadian comedy film co-written by Andrew Herman and Michael Peterson and also directed by Michael Peterson.[1] Evan Williams stars as Lloyd,[2] a college student who is convinced by his professor Derek, played by Mike Smith to join his deteriorating Larping league.[3]

Plot

Lloyd the Conqueror is Lloyd, a lazy college student with big dreams for the future. Lloyd and his two best friends Patrick and Oswald desperately need to pass their Medieval Literature class in order to keep their financial aid. Our heroes are so desperate that they beg their teacher for extra credit work. Their professor, Derek, concedes but only on one condition: They must join his deteriorating LARPing league and battle against him in a game of Demons & Dwarves. Lloyd decides to enlist the help of Cassandra, ex-cage fighter and "Self Defense for Women" instructor in the battle against Derek, the long reigning champion who has been twisted to the dark side by his years of intense academic study.

On their quest to victory the three students must match wits with a pack of crazed Danes whose bloodlust is posted on-line to their LARPing victories, the muscle bound Leopold who comes out of the Sanitarium to beat Lloyd and friends at the game he takes a little too seriously, and the stuck up Science Fiction Larper who would sooner break the prime directive than cut our heroes some slack. The journey forces Lloyd and the boys to do some actual work for once including throwing ‘magic’ tinfoil balls, deciding which household items are most effective in slaying trolls, and questioning society's hero worship of George Washington Carver.

Cast

Evan Williams as Lloyd
Mike Smith as Derek
Brian Posehn as Andy
Jesse Reid as Patrick
Scott Patey as Oswald
Tegan Moss as Cassandra
Harland Williams as Vulcan
Aaron Pearl as Leopold
David Lawrence as Jorgen
Brendan Hunter as Klaus
Andrew Sparacino as Dagmar
Darcy Dunlop as Rosie
Matthew Robert Kelly (as Matt Kelly) as Agent Danger
Darcy Michael as Unicorn
Gavin Williams as Oliver

References

Wilton, Lisa (11 October 2010). "Role Bubbles over in new comedy". Calgary Sun. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
Tebbutt, John (14 October 2010). "LARPing movie stars". Fast Forward Weekly. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
Volmers, Erik (25 September 2011). "Calgary Film Festival: Calgary-shot Lloyd the Conqueror finds laughs in LARPing". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

External links

Lloyd the Conqueror at IMDB

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[1] Wilton, Lisa (11 October 2010). "Role Bubbles over in new comedy". Calgary Sun. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

[2] Tebbutt, John (14 October 2010). "LARPing movie stars". Fast Forward Weekly. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

[3] Volmers, Erik (25 September 2011). "Calgary Film Festival: Calgary-shot Lloyd the Conqueror finds laughs in LARPing". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 5 July 2017.