As of Thursday afternoon, Zach Braff's Kickstarter campaign to fund his film Wish I Was Here, the sequel to 2004's Garden State, has already raised $1,612,730.
Braff's goal? ...$2,000,000.
Wow, that's more than 80%, Turk.
There are still 28 days left to donate to Braff's vanity project, but at the rate he's going, "JD, M.D." won't even need the weekend.
Watch the writer-director-actor explain himself below:
In a note further down the Kickstarter page, Braff explains he had been quite close to signing a standard Hollywood deal to finance his film; ultimately, he voted against it.
According only to Braff, Braff thinks that that traditional model might force him to make certain compromises that would, ultimately, destroy his movie.
Ultimately, by crowdsourcing Wish I Was Here via Kickstarter, Braff, the auteur, maintains that he, and he alone, will retain control over every aesthetic decision: location, casting, editing, etc. ad inf.
Not surprisingly, Twitter flew into hysterics, with comedian (and budding filmmaker, himself) Tim Heidecker even going so far as to offer a mock page of the film's script.
According to Grantland's Amos Barshad, the criticism here is twofold:
"First, the thinking goes, the more that famous people take over Kickstarter, the less room or attention or money there'll be for small, plucky filmmakers with no name recognition who try to get their projects going the only way they can, through crowdsourcing," he writes.
"And second," writes Barshad, "[Braff] wants to make a sequel to Garden State, quite possibly the most maligned film of the last 10 years."
Ignoring the grammatical error in Braff's title--the correct, subjunctive mood should read Wish I WERE Here--all in all, 22,582 people have backed Wish I Was Here.
Someone should let Amanda Palmer, the poetess, know A.S.A.P!
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