glumPuddle wrote:Kickstarter marketing has begun. They're asking for donations. This page also says more about the story.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the ... ion-awakes
The fact that they are asking for donations from members of the public to fund their movie doesn't do much to inspire confidence in the credibility of their production set-up for me....
Sure there is more than one way to go about producing a movie, and i think its admirable that two first time writers are choosing to produce their movie independently rather than selling their script to one of the big studios to produce, but something about the whole project seems to be not quite right.
For instance they say the movie will be released next year, yet they don't seem to have a distributor in place (i can think of several movies which whilst completed have sat on the shelf for years due to a lack of a distributor), they say that filming will begin in England this year, yet they don't seem to have any financial backing in place to do so (a film like The Kings Speech say, cost £10-15 million to produce), they bizarrely seem to have started work on the score already, yet they don't yet have a director in place (can you imagine any "A-List" director coming on board a project and not wanting to use his own composer or have any input in the score?) and several other little things which don't quite add up right now.
It's not to say they won't realise their dream and see the film through to production, but its just that by marketing the movie to the fanbase before they've even got anything much more than an unproven script in place, and by making bold claims about big name stars and "A-List" directors, they seem to be running the risk of setting themselves up for a big disappointment should they fail.