The Veronica Mars movie broke Kickstarter records yesterday, breaking $2 million inside 10 hours…is it wrong to find it a little off-putting that a tool to finance outsider projects is being co-opted by obv insiders? Or was it always an inevitability? Either way, as Warners is apparently cool with this financing model, i just hope Carnivale creator Dan Knauf is watching. Would happily sell spare organs to help make that movie happen.
Also, bet David Lynch could raise whatever budget he needs for a new Twin Peaks movie in no more than 2 hours.
Also, also – somebody at Uproxx has a Matt Murdoch-ian fearlessness for suggesting this. i LOVED The Cape, but am very much aware that virtually nobody else did.
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I never even saw an episode of Veronica Mars, so I can’t say whether it’s a good thing or not that it got crowd sourced. And yes, it is inevitable that an outsider source is co-oped by insiders. Look at Comic Con.
And I think Carnivale and Twin Peaks would reach the max amount of money needed within 10 hours. Besides, Twin Peaks would be made for far less than any big budget movie and still look/feel as great.
As for The Cape, I actually really liked it. Was a good super hero show that used magic and sleight of hand as a super power. Maybe it would have done better if Neil Patrick Harris played a rival villain magician.
This gives me some hope for Megas XLR- George Kristic has been threatening to take to Kickstarter if talks with Cartoon Network fall through on a new Megas XLR anything (movie, tv series, toy line- he’s been trying to set all or any of that up for a few months according to his Twitter feed).
Ralph Bakshi recently got funding through Kickstarter for a new animated short he’s been wanting for make for over a decade, which is also awesome (kind of wish he was given enough to make the complete movie he’s wanted to do, but a short’s something). The producers of The Goon raised enough to make their story reel.
Now if only Jhonen Vasquez would quit farting around with posters and T-shirts and start up a Kickstarter account, maybe he’d finally get the chance to make another animated project… this time without having to deal with network BS&P…
What I’m trying to say here is, cartoons. So many cartoons. Animation is godamn expensive, and unless it’s aimed at the Family Guy, anime, or Cars audiences, it just don’t get produced. Kickstarter, fix this problem. For the love of God.