Topic: Dragon's Lair: The Movie
Kind of odd to do a Kickstarter to fund just a pitch, but I do love Dragon's Lair and Don Bluth animation.
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Kickstarter for a PITCH!? What the hell?
That said, I adore ANASTASIA and TITAN AE... but a pitch!? Why do they need half a million dollars for a pitch!? That seems incredibly high for the possibility of a movie.
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Hand-drawn animation is incredibly expensive, not to mention there's hardly any cheap overseas animators anymore. 1 minute of animation can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars so 550K for 10 minutes like they were asking was actually economical.
I backed this but it fell short. However, Bluth and Goldman are starting a new campaign at IndieGoGo soon.
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Well, that makes sense. Okay then! Money for Indie Gogo it is.
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Seems to be doing pretty good so far - almost 100k in 24 hours.
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With 9 hours to go, almost 479k raised. Their original goal of 550k doesn't seem so outlandish now.
I have to admit they added much better rewards this time; I love the animation cels.
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My final word on this - it actually hit 550k. I'm astounded. 550k for a pitch.
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Looks like this may have actually paid off. Netflix was one of the studios Bluth pitched the animated film to, so it likely started the discussion.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/03/27 … -starring/
And Ryan Reynolds as a live action Dirk the Daring could be pretty perfect.
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I doubt a live action movie is what Don Bluth had in mind.
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Grizzlor wrote:
I doubt a live action movie is what Don Bluth had in mind.
It wasn’t, but it looks like it led to this. I doubt we would see this happening without that animated pitch.