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Dors anyone else get the feeling that....

posted 7 years ago by grhqofb5
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The broken lizard crew may be planning to just take the $4 million in crowd sourced funds, shoot some minimal footage, then shut project down and run away with 90% of the money. It's not like a studio is funding the thing, so there's really not anyone that is truly responsible for ensuring that the funds are actually spent on production. No accounting, no auditing of expenditures except perhaps some minimal internal controls. Believe me, I'm all about seeing a second movie, but considering that there are no true "primary" financial backers, and with what appears to be a lack of progress, I wouldn't be shocked to find out that these guys just drank a bunch of beer for a couple months, smoked some weed, and then divided up the remaining funds once they realize it just isn't happening. Who's going to tell them not to?

[–] xvoorheesx 7 years ago

Haha I would've believed that a year ago but I think it's too far along (Post Production) and they have an actual cast list that it seems more unlikely now. Will this ever get a theatrical release? Probably not. But it will be available somehow somewhere for our eyeballs to see!

[–] grhqofb5 7 years ago

Yeah, but here's the thing (and I'm not saying this is likely, but theoretically possible). Who is saying that its in post production? Its not like there's a studio, reputable producer, or director involved in this. I can see a way to shoot a few scene to make it look like there's some real effort, while the crew gets together, basically trains for a non-existent beer drinking competition for 6 months, realize that there's no way to finish the movie or get the financing to do it, so they just tell everyone it fell through, divide up the rest of the $$$, call it "salary" and run off. It's happened with other movies (perhaps legitimately). They could just say they've run out of funds and are waiting for an investor to step in the finish up the post-production, but then never do anything about it.

Anyways, if this doesn't get a theatrical release I'll be disappointed.

[–] xvoorheesx 7 years ago

I can definitely see this happening as I have heard of stories similar... and I know that the "Post Production status" on IMDb isn't anything to count on (I thought about it as I typed it)... but I want to believe the status updates because I have been waiting on this movie for years and also, I don't see Broken Lizard A. *beep*!ng their fans like that and B. Ruining their reputation (as good or bad as it may be) within the industry.

I will also be disappointed without a theatrical release but that's where they would need a distributor... I can see Netflix, Amazon or Hulu buying it for release exclusively with their service which would suck worse that "straight to DVD" in my opinion... but at least it would be available for our eyeballs to see, and that's the most important thing. That, and being funny of course!

[–] gooney_77 7 years ago

To be honest I thought this was actually how Broken Lizards did all of their movies.

[–] Rango-Fandango 7 years ago

Well there are these video updates - http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/super-troopers-2#/updates. So at the very least they have been making the film they promised the backers, unlike some of the other vaporware scoundrels out there.