Renowned comedic actor Zach Braff has been greenlit by
Worldview Entertainment to produce his film, Wish I was Here, after successfully garnering $2.6 million of crowd
funding from Kickstarter. In total, the film’s budget is projected to be $10
million and will star Zach Braff in a plot that is reminiscent to a general prodigal-son-rekindles-ties-with-family
story arch.
Perhaps as more and more films gain large-scale backing from
sites like Kickstarter, more independent moviemakers will be able to produce
more autonomously, possibly retriggering a renaissance of subgenre exploration,
as writers will be able to take risks that large studios would never back
otherwise.
That being said, Kickstarter purists are enraged that big
name actors like Zach Braff and Kristen Bell ($5 million for Veronica Mars) are using the site for
multi-million ventures, which in their minds, undermine the entire premise of
the site helping innovators who are pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. Perhaps
an alternative version of Kickstarter could be founded where fans of certain
creative minds could crowdfund their projects in a collective manner—away from
big studios and non-film projects.
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