Can't they just buy the rights back from Lionsgate through crowdfunding?

Let me start by saying that Repo! The Genetic Opera is one of my favorite musicals. Ever. It's original, imaginative, and a perfect cult musical. Heck, I even remember watching it TONS of times and being OBSESSED with it back then, although it's a shame that 6 years later almost everyone has forgotten about the movie except for the die-hard fans. Yes, I know that perhaps it wasn't THE GREATEST movie and technically speaking, it's sort of choppy and whatnot, but it definitely has what other movies lack nowadays: ORIGINALITY.

My point is, I suddenly remembered about this movie today by going through my iTunes and finding the soundtrack, and I can see how long it has been since it originally premiered. Time has passed and the media industry has changed A LOT. Nowadays, fans have a bigger voice more than ever. Waaay more than 6 years ago. Fans can now decide if they want a sequel or not by alternative means such as crowdfunding and by more direct ways of reaching the directors, such as social media. Choices we didn't have or weren't as popular back then.

Let's take for example the case of videogame producer American McGee and his beloved project "Alice". Alice is a videogame most of us played back then in the 2000's. A twisted, gory, gothic action/adventure version of Alice in Wonderland. Through the years Alice gathered a large cult following, enough to, 11 years later, grant the original game a sequel 'Alice: Madness Returns'. American, also envisioned the videogame being a film and, recently, a series of animated chapters of Alice and her adventures on other twisted worlds.
He gathered his fans and explained them the projects he had in mind, but in order to do this he would have to set a crowdfunding among them via Kickstarter in order to be able to raise the money to buy the rights of American McGee's Alice back. If I'm not mistaken the rights were being held by Universal at the moment, with the film project having been shelved years ago already.

Thing is, they were able to raise the money up, they bought the rights back and now he's working on the third instalment of the series which will be animated segments (sort of The Animatrix), but I think he's developing another videogame as well.

Can't the directors from Repo! do this as well? What is holding them? What do you guys think?

By the way, sorry for my crappy English. My mother language is Spanish.