“That would be correct.” |
— Bread Nelson to Captain Jumpa |
- You may be looking for the series itself, or the artifact it's based around.
Bread's Crumbs is a short film written and directed by Ryan Bowman, and filmed and edited by Scott Pincus. David Matz stars as Bread Nelson, a villain who seeks an artifact known as "The Crumbs". A cunning treasure hunter, Captain Jumpa, gathers his associates - The Clan - to take back the precious item. As we later learn, the relic turns out to be something entirely different. The film stars Ryan Bowman, Gabe Sagherian, Russell Parkinson and Scott Pincus, as well as Austin Brinser, Chris Lombardo, Eric Gorbaty and David Matz in their acting debuts. It was released on June 19, 2014.
In the last week of school, Ryan proposed the idea of making a short film in-between the cast's final exams. He wrote the script after completing one of his finals, and the film was shot over the span of two days before being edited and released a week later. At the time, there were no plans for it to start a long-running series.
Bread's Crumbs sparked the creation of eight spin-offs, which were released from 2014 to 2017. It received a full-length sequel in June 2015, a second sequel in June 2016, and a third sequel in August 2017. A prequel, Kaine West: No Salvation, was released in September 2019, and a fourth and final sequel was released in June 2021.
Plot[]
The film opens with a Sun Chips bag that supposedly contains The Crumbs, an ancient artifact located in the Tomb of the Bacchus. Suddenly, an assailant rushes by and steals the bag from the fence, before running off. As we later learn, the bag contains a fake version of the artifact to hide the real artifact's location.
Later, three treasure hunters; Captain Jumpa, Colonel Crunch and Glen Tennis walk towards the tomb and discover "The Crumbs" is missing. Desperate, Jumpa orders Glen to get the other hunters. Suddenly, the unknown assailant, now revealed to be Bread Nelson, emerges with "The Crumbs", intending to steal it.
Glen reaches the rest of the party; Flynt Coal, John Bacchus and Vin Diesel, and they run back to meet Jumpa and Crunch. As they arrive, they're stopped by Nelson. Bacchus, who knows that the tomb is his ancestors', defiantly continues at the protest of the others, but is struck down by Nelson. Colonel Crunch runs over to help Bacchus, but is also struck down by Nelson.
Captain Jumpa orders the group to attack, before temporarily halting the battle in order to get everyone to try on new clothes (which even Nelson and Bacchus do). They later resume the battle, as Corporal Crunch, who had been guarding the tomb entrance, arrives and is struck down by Nelson. In the ensuing battle, Flynt and Vin are struck down by Nelson, before Glen suffocates Nelson until he passes out. Glen retrieves "The Crumbs" from Nelson, but collapses due to its poisonous energies, so he hands it to Jumpa. Jumpa places it in the tomb's sarcophagus, destroying it, and his team members regain their strength.
Before the credits roll, Colonel Crunch reveals that Corporal Crunch is his clone, and Nelson proclaims; "That would be correct".
Cast[]
- Ryan Bowman as Captain Jumpa, the man responsible for leading the excavation of the tomb of the Bacchus and recovery of Bread's Crumbs, who is also a revered enemy of Bread Nelson. Jumpa plans the trip and attempts to ensure that the tomb is secure, although Nelson is able to sneak inside and steal The Crumbs before the group can arrive. Jumpa later leads the attack on Nelson, but most of his group is weakened before Nelson is finally brought down. Jumpa later uses the power of Bread's Crumbs in order to revive everyone, including Nelson, presumably destroying the artifact in the process.
- David Matz as Bread Nelson, an aggressive thief, later revealed as a leader of the U.B.N.V.A., who wishes to steal The Crumbs in order to harness the power of the artifact for himself. Nelson unknowingly tries taking the fake relic from the tomb, desperate in his quest for power. David was no longer interested in playing Nelson after this film, resulting in several shoehorned cameos, followed by Tyler Gallagher being recast years later in Bread's Crumbs 5: Forgotten Future.
- Gabe Sagherian as John Bacchus, the last heir to the Bacchus bloodline, also a member of the secondary team, who has joined the excavation in order to learn more about his ancestors' history. John is highly defiant, and that eventually leads to his defeat at the hands of Nelson. However, because of his actions, the rest of the team was able to stop Nelson and harness the power of the artifact.
- Russell Parkinson as Colonel Crunch, Captain Jumpa's right hand man, who joins him and Glen on the primary team during the excavation and treasure hunt. Colonel Crunch attacks Nelson in an attempt to retrieve The Crumbs, but Nelson is able to overpower Crunch.
- Scott Pincus as Glen Tennis, a friend of Captain Jumpa and Colonel Crunch, who joins them on the primary hunting team. Glen is responsible for organizing the two teams, and also defeats Nelson. Following this, Glen is weakened by the fake artifact's energies, but is rejuvenated by Jumpa.
- Austin Brinser as Flynt Coal, one of the secondary team's treasure hunters. Flynt is the brains of the group, who is able to determine the loss of Bread's Crumbs before they even arrive. Despite being a strong and cunning fighter, Flynt is later defeated by Nelson, but is rejuvenated after Jumpa destroys the fake artifact.
- Chris Lombardo as Vin Diesel, one of the secondary team's treasure hunters, as well as Flynt's best friend. He is a loyal ally of Captain Jumpa and is later defeated by Nelson, but is rejuvenated after Jumpa destroys the fake artifact.
- Eric Gorbaty as Corporal Crunch, Colonel Crunch's clone and a secondary team treasure hunter, who was assigned to guard the tomb's entrance; he is defeated by Nelson shortly after his arrival.
Production[]
Bread's Crumbs, unlike most of Scott's films, began filming the day of the idea's composition; June 13, 2014. On that day, Ryan Bowman, the film's creator, noticed that Scott had brought his camera to school, and came up with the idea to film a movie at the school during their last days there. "We'll just wing it" he proclaimed, and he wrote out the plot and script for the movie after his first final had ended. Immediately afterword, he gathered Scott and the other cast members, who traveled to the school's track in order to film away from others.
Without much preparation time, a bag of Sun Chips was used to represent The Crumbs. However, filming ran fairly swiftly as the first half of the movie was shot. Russell Parkinson was not available for most of the second day of filming, hence Eric G's appearance, but finally arrived in time to be in the film's final scene. Shooting was wrapped up on June 14.
Scott later edited and modified the footage, adding in his own comedic moments. It was released on June 19, 2014.
Sequels[]
See Bread's Crumbs 2: Electric Boogaloo, Bread's Crumbs 3: Scrub Slam, Bread's Crumbs 4: Mass Consumption and Bread's Crumbs 5: Forgotten Future
On July 16, 2014, Scott confirmed that a sequel to Bread's Crumbs would be made, and would likely be released around the same time as the first film the following year. Three spin-off films, The Biggest Fish of Them All, Alias Odium and Tea-Eee, were released in the following months. The sequel was released in June 2015. A second sequel was released in June 2016, and a third sequel was released in August 2017. A fourth and final sequel was released in June 2021.
Errors[]
- Jumpa remarks that "they're looking for Bread's Crumbs", though they already know it's in the Tomb of the Bacchus. As it turns out however, the artifact in the tomb was one of the Fake Crumbs.
- When Glen says "Flynt, Bacchus, Vin!", he looks at each of them from from left to right. However, when Glen looks to Bacchus, he says "Vin" - and when he looks to Vin, he says "Bacchus".
Trivia[]
- In one of the film's bloopers, Glen Tennis says "Flynt, Bacchus, Quinn!" instead of "Flynt, Bacchus, Vin!". Quinn Diesel later made his debut in the fourth film as Vin's son.
- Flynt's first line in the film is "It was stolen by a scrub, wasn't it?" The third film was later titled Bread's Crumbs 3: Scrub Slam.
- A deleted shot from the film has Bread Nelson punch Colonel Crunch while yelling "shapeshifting punch!" - transforming him into Corporal Crunch. This was done because Russell Parkinson wasn't there while the scene was filmed, but Eric Gorbaty was. Scott scrapped this during the editing process and made them two different characters.
- The entire film's soundtrack was from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, except for the end credits music and the piece "I Promise", which is from Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
- Much of the film's dialogue became running jokes amongst the cast members - the most prominent ones being those spoken by Bread Nelson, including "that would be correct", "you don't have to do anything", and his final line, "Nooooo!!".
- Due to the fact that his glasses turn dark in sunlight, Austin Brinser's eyes are never actually seen in the film.
- The "iconic" shot of Bread Nelson saying "that would be correct" was actually released on June 17 - two days before the film came out - in the video Cam Ham Rye.