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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 12 months at the Texas Theatre.  
  
Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Jon Gries will seem on the Oak Cliff film house on April 1 for a particular 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 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 purchase a seat in the first 10 rows of the theater that will also give holders access to a special meet-and-greet with the screening's guests and an autographed movie 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 purchase a wig for considered one of 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 received a screening at that year's Sundance Film Festival, the place it became one of the most talked-about films of the unbiased film festival. Fox Searchlight Photos and MTV Films inked a deal to distribute the film the next summer season, and it turned one of many year's biggest sleeper hits, according to an oral history of the film printed in The Deseret News.  
  
Hess based mostly 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 suggested adding some big names to the cast to assist boost its earnings potential. According to The Deseret News, a casting director prompt replacing Heder with Jake Gyllenhaal, but Hess insisted that Heder was the only actor who could 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 really leads, because the character continuously tries to liven up his existence with his love for mythical hybrid animals, obtaining ninja skills and going on fictitious trips 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 and 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, persistently finds ways to interfere with Napoleon's life.  
  
The film became the idea for a 2010 animated series on Fox with voices of all of the principal cast, including Diedrich Bader as the town's hand-to-hand dojo combat master Rex. There's also been talk from cast members Ramirez and Heder about a potential sequel.