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Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
Monster Trucks is a 2016 American action comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chris Wedge and written by Derek Connolly, from a story by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger and Matthew Robinson. The film stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper and Holt McCallany, and follows a high schooler who finds an escaped monster living in his truck.
Principal photography of the film began on April 4, 2014, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on January 13, 2017, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Monster Trucks grossed $64 million worldwide against its $125 million budget, leading it to be labeled as a box office bomb, losing the studio over $120 million.
Monster Trucks (2017)
Directed by: Chris Wedge
Starring: Jane Levy, Lucas Till, Chelah Horsdal, Rob Lowe, Amy Ryan, Thomas Lennon, Barry Pepper, Danny Glover, Aliyah O’Brien
Screenplay by: Derek Connolly
Production Design by: Andrew Menzies
Cinematography by: Don Burgess
Film Editing by: Conrad Buff
Costume Design by: Tish Monaghan
Set Decoration by: Hamish Purdy
Music by: David Sardy
MPAA Rating: PG for action, peril, brief scary images, and some rude humor.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: January 13, 2017
