Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment have debuted the first trailer for the forthcoming documentary J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius exploring the iconic figurehead of the parody religion and the movement behind it. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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What started out as an inside joke amongst two self-proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for when they decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own in J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
From Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment comes the story of a church that’s called “the most aggressively preposterous theology the world has ever known!” But what is the Church? Filmmaker Sandy K. Boone explores the underground movement that has galvanized the imaginative, the artistic, the nerdy, even the deranged – to examine the simmering dystopia in their culture, and do absolutely nothing about it – except, maybe, poke fun at it all.
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Directed by Sandy K. Boone, and written by Sandy K. Boone and Jason Wehling, the film features appearances from Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused), Penn Jillette and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics) J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius is set to hit virtual theaters on October 16 followed by a digital and video on demand release on October 20.
