Super Troopers 2

[Lowry45]

So I look at my news feed today and Broken Lizard is pretty much holding its fans hostage by saying you have to donate for them to release a movie they have already written the script for.

Now I liked Super Troopers 1, I have probably watched it close 35 times, saying that I would not donate a single dollar for a sequel to any movie.

Thoughts?

 

[RW_Prescott]

Originally posted by Lowry45:

Now I liked Super Troopers 1, I have probably watched it close 35 times, saying that I would not donate a single dollar for a sequel to any movie.

nodding.

 

[NickleDimer]

My issue with crowdfunding is when the person asking for funding is wealthy enough to support the project on their own.
I can understand when people do it because they either can't get funding or don't want to water down their ideas due to corporate demands and then barely see any return off of it.

 

[TMJ45]

I've met Jay Chandraskar or however you spell his last name. I wouldn't say any of those guys are so wealthy that they can bankroll their own movies. He watches Bears games in Murray hill when he's in the city. Awesome guy.
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[nardibynature123]

Originally posted by NickleDimer:
My issue with crowdfunding is when the person asking for funding is wealthy enough to support the project on their own.
I can understand when people do it because they either can't get funding or don't want to water down their ideas due to corporate demands and then barely see any return off of it.

 

[NickleDimer]

Originally posted by TMJ45:
I wouldn't say any of those guys are so wealthy that they can bankroll their own movies.

Agreed - they are in the "living comfortably, but not rich enough to bankroll a legitimate feature film" group.

 

[TheFoyeEffect]

The list of people who are wealthy enough is very, very short.

 

[NickleDimer]

Originally posted by TheFoyeEffect:
The list of people who are wealthy enough is very, very short.

I would just say it's short. Not very very short. We're not talking making a sci fi trilogy.

 

[TheFoyeEffect]

I'm interested to see how they make a movie on a budget that's less than $10 million. Bad Grandpa's budget was like $15 million, and they had very few actors to pay.

 

[NickleDimer]

Originally posted by TheFoyeEffect:
I'm interested to see how they make a movie on a budget that's less than $10 million. Bad Grandpa's budget was like $15 million, and they had very few actors to pay.

The first Super Troopers was made for 1.2 million.

 

[LetsGoNova]

its not hard at all to be under $10M. They could simply pay themselves scale and make their money on the backend, for instance. I'm sure that's what they did for the first one.
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[TMJ45]

Bad Grabdpa was terrible
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[NickleDimer]

Originally posted by LetsGoNova:
its not hard at all to be under $10M. They could simply pay themselves scale and make their money on the backend, for instance. I'm sure that's what they did for the first one.
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I'm not an expert, but I always thought the way that it went in Hollywood was that a low budget first movie like Super Troopers usually had to surrender most of the proceeds to a big company just to get it promoted a little and distributed. The real benefit for the creative people and actors was the exposure. Being involved with a nationally released movie and making pennies is better than being in a not released movie and making nothing.