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Update – Dec 2: The Dragon’s Lair Kickstarter was shut down last month, but has now returned on IndieGoGo asking for only $250,000 – under half its Kickstarter goal of $550,000.
How exactly the pitch can be created for $300,000 less than originally stated isn’t clear. Furthermore, the project will receive the pledged money even if the $250,000 target isn’t reached.
Almost $100,000 has been raised in just 24 hours, so things are looking promising this time around.
Be aware that your money isn’t going towards making the actual movie, but a pitch which creators Dom and Gary can take to movie studios in order to get the full production funded. Even if a pitch is created there’s no guarantee we’ll see a movie.
If you’d still like to back the project head over to IndieGoGo.
Original report: A Kickstarter campaign aimed at raising funds to create a Dragon’s Lair: The Movie pitch has been cancelled, but Don Bluth & Gary Goldman – the creative minds behind the project – intend to return next week via IndieGoGo.
The funding campaign was seeking $550,000 in order to create a compelling pitch for the movie, but with very little time to go and funding at only $241,579 the Kickstarter campaign was shut down.
“Today, we are cancelling our crowdfunding campaign,” announced yesterday’s update. “Ah, but Dirk and Daphne are not done yet! We’ll all be back in action on Tuesday, December 1st with a stronger, more valiant campaign we modeled after many of your suggestions.
“So stay tooned by heading over to Indiegogo and adding your email address to our page, and you will be the very first ones we tell once we launch out on our newest adventure!”
You’ll find the IndieGoGo page here.
The project was always going to be a hard sell because backers were funding the creation of a pitch, which had no guarantee that a movie would actually be made. The team may face the same problems with its IndieGoGo campaign, which may only be achievable if the funding target is lowered considerably.
