High Schoolers

High Schoolers, known in some territories as High Scholars, is an upcoming 2018 American 3D computer-animated adventure teen comedy-drama film directed by the writing duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and produced by Seth Rogen, Neal H. Moritz, and Evan Goldberg. It is produced by Walden Media, Original Film and distributed by Universal Pictures. It will be released on May 18, 2018. Sony Pictures Imageworks will handle the animation for the characters while Universal Animation will do the background.

Plot
An 10th grader boy named David 'D.J' Myrick (Seth Rogen) gets up, and prepares himself for an special day to prepare for the Indians-Wildcats game. He grabs his breakfast and bids goodbye to his mom. He goes to the bus and the song plays. (Plot in progress)

Cast

 * Seth Rogen as David Jones "D.J." Myrick, the main protagonist
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Stacie Aday, the deutagonist
 * Freddie Prinze Jr. as Collin Brady, Stacie's best friend and the tritagonist
 * Keith Ferguson as Kadarius "K.D." Wilson, the main antagonist who prefers K.D
 * Anna Kendrick as Mrs. April Clark, an teacher who was the first one who discovered K.D. locked them.
 * Kristen Wiig as Ashleigh Jefferys, D.J.'s girlfriend. Wiig also voiced Haley Grace Malone, the tetartagonist of the movie.
 * Edward Norton as Logan Wisdom; Alex Gomez (Alex is one of the antagonists.)
 * Jonah Hill as Lucas Craft
 * Zac Efron as Austin Smith; Aaron Duncan
 * Craig Robinson as Keenan Steele, an minor antagonist
 * Phil LaMarr as Asante Perkins
 * Bill Hader as Wesley Ledlow; Zachary Ledlow (Zac is one of the antagonists who is part of K.D's pack.)
 * Kate Winslet as Morgan Brooke Bendall; Heather Adams. Morgan is one of the two pentagonists.
 * Anne Hathaway as Lagan Ann Fuller, an 11th grader and one of the tritagonist. She, along with Haley, are the most popular characters.
 * Selena Gomez as Haley Flanagan, an 11th grader and one of the tritagonists. She, along with Lagan, are the most popular characters.
 * Zoe Saldana as Clara Corona
 * Lara Jill Miller as Breanna Jefferys, Laeden Jefferys; Mrs. Whitney Swinney; Cheyenne; Jessica Newell
 * Grey DeLisle as Chloe Mercier; Aleia Kelsey; Alexis Marie Boyd; Audrianna Flanagan; Mrs. Kristie Walker
 * Nicole Oliver as Cassandra 'Angela' Juarez; Elisha Preston (Preston's one of the two pentagonists)
 * James Franco as Ethan Davis; Mr. Chris Corsbie
 * Ashleigh Ball as Jasmine Todd; Savannah Ledlow; Ariel Monroe
 * Shannon Chan-Kent as Baylee Hope King; Ariel Naylor
 * Conrad Vernon as Mr. Brian Dolan; Trey Davis (Davis's one of the antagonist.)
 * Danny McBride as A school bus driver
 * Genndy Tartakovsky as Trent Davis; Austin Smith (11th) (Austin's one of the antagonists)

Release
The teaser trailer will be released on October 26, 2017.

The second trailer will be released on January 25, 2018.

The final tráiler will be released on April 26, 2018.

The movie will be released theatrically on May 18, 2018 with IMAX theathe

Home media
The movie will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 23 2018. Special features included, deleted scenes, commentaries about the movie, behind the scenes and bloopers

Rating
The movie is rated PG for Some rude humor and action.

Variants

 * Universal Pictures - they start with the music
 * Original Film - Normal, but with the music music.
 * Walden Media - normal also with the music

Transcript
High Schoolers/Transcript

High Schoolers/TV Spots and Trailers

Original songs

 * Best Day Ever by The High Schoolers Cast
 * Best Day Ever (reprise) by The High Schoolers Cast (including Stacie, Lagan, Logan, Haley, Haley Malone, The Teachers and Caitlin)

Songs heard in the film

 * Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit
 * In the End by Linkin Park
 * Slow Motion by Nickelback (Note: This song is used in the Climax)
 * Hell Yeah by Midnight Red

Trailer songs

 * Wiggle by Jason DeRulo ft. Snoop Dogg
 * Still Waiting by Sum 41 (TV Spots)

Critical response
High Schoolers recieved positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes had the score of 78%. The site's critical consensus reads "Funny, sexy and heartwarming, Rogen does it again with the PG-rated High Schoolers." On MetaCritic, it had a score of 80 of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore, it was given an "B+".

TV Series
Main article: High Schoolers: The Chronicles of D.J and Friends

Due to the film's critical and commercial success, Original Film and Walden Media announced that the movie will be adapted into a television series with Warner Bros. Animation developing the cartoon with Snipple Animation. The series will be created by Lauren Faust and Genndy Tartakovsky with Rogen and Goldberg executive producing.

International Release

 * U.S.A (Dolby Theatre): May 11 until May 13 2018
 * Other countries: July 20 2018
 * U.S.A, Canada and Mexico: May 18 2018

Theaterical release

 * Budweiser hosted a sweepstakes for the movie.
 * Red Robin promoted the movie by giving out the High Schoolers can coolers, as there are six to collect. In addition, a new burger, called The High School Burger, was introduced to promote the film, where it contained pepperjack cheese, bacon, onion rings, French fries, tomatoes, pickles, and lettuce in the burger.

DVD Release
More soon...

Credits
High Schoolers/Credits

Sequel
The sequel, High Schoolers: Back 2 School will be released on November 2023. Rogen was in talks to make Lagan and Haley the protagonists.

Games
An game, tiled High Schoolers: School Rush, will be developed for mobile devices. You have got to be 15 or older in order to play the game.

An console game, titled High Schoolers: Haley's Bad Day, is released 7 months after the film release. It is confirmed to be set 3 months after the events of the film, and will have a Conker's Bad Fur Day-styled gameplay.

Trivia

 * In the deleted scenes, girls that were in the background named Hannah Abernathy, Laila Teleja and Lyndsey Joiner talked, indicating that they were originally going to have a talking appearence in the film.
 * Despite not having the "strong crude sexual content", the film has sexual references.
 * Samurai Jack makes a cameo as a poster in the auditorium room where Haley is hiding in.
 * Coincedentally, Samurai Jack was created by Genndy Tartakovsky, and he is one of the 3 directors of the film.
 * For some ways, the movie shares some similarities with the Sausage Party series, because:
 * Both are computer-animated (However, Nitrogen provides the animation for both the 2016 film, and it's 2021 sequel, while Sony Pictures Imageworks provides the animation for this film.)
 * Both are produced by Walden Media
 * Both are rated PG by the MPAA
 * Tim Miller was attracted to direct the movie, but due to his involvement with the Deadpool series, he left and was replaced by duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
 * This is the second Point Grey Pictures film to release on an November date, after 2015's The Night Before.
 * On the teaser poster, the font was different, but it was changed into the High school-font, the same font as its logo.

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