Kevin Smith smeekt niet

Hij zei dat zij zei dat ze op die ene website had gelezen dat Kevin Smith zijn fans om geld vraagt om z'n nieuwe film te kunnen maken. Woorden zijn uit hun verband gerukt en in een verkeerde context neergezet. Smith is nu (logischerwijs) een beetje pissed omdat het niet zo is gegaan als overal wordt vermeld.

Hoe ging het dan wel?

The idea to fan-finance RED STATE wasn’t mine; it was suggested by someone following me on Twitter (more ambitious souls than I can wade through the morass of ass-eating bon mots smeared across my Twitterscape to find the exact moment the “Let’s put on a show”-ification of RED STATE happened). It went something like this…

- Someone asked for RED STATE funding status.

- I say there’s no new update: the lead we thought we had dried-up.

- Someone suggests fans financing the flick.

- Someone else suggests setting up a PayPal donation site.

- Touched, moved, intrigued, and wondering if this is where the puck’s going, I start looking into the feasibility. This takes many man hours from professionals who don’t exactly share our communistic approach to the subject (i.e, legal costs involved in seeing if this is even possible have already set me back close to ten grand).

- Months later, in a round table at the Toronto press day for COP OUT, I briefly talk about the above - adding this new information, that we’ve been looking into whether something like this is even possible, in terms of the legalities of accepting donations. I also talk a little about matching any funds raised, as well as the upcoming View Askew Garage Sale, in which we’re auctioning off all our props and putting whatever we raise into RED. In essence, selling the past to shoot the future.

Maar nu weet je nog niet hoe Kevin erover denkt. Check daarvoor zijn blogpost over deze zaak.