Dark Dungeons: The Movie - On Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295102457/rpgs-are-evil-dark-dungeons-the-movie)
I wonder if they can talk WotC and Pat Robertson to both back this movie...
(EDIT: If you think this belongs in Media then please move it.)
Huh, almost makes me want to play D&D again. I'm in for twenty bucks, would have been ten but they used the word 'mendacity' in a sentence, and vocabulary should be encouraged.
So...a remake of Skulduggery?
Pure awesome.
I am so glad Jack Chick doesn't take shit from Mike Stackpole. The world must know the Truth about the Cthulhu mythos!
I'm amazed he got the rights.
Heh, you think Jack Chick has some other motivation than money?
Hopefully someone will also follow it with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version.
Quote from: Lynn;649190Hopefully someone will also follow it with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version.
Um..... I think the movie itself will BE the MST3K version.
:rotfl:
Making a movie on a 12.5 K budget? It has to be top notch right?
Quote from: CRKrueger;649186Heh, you think Jack Chick has some other motivation than money?
Actually Jack Chick is apparently a man of the mystery - there is a notion that Chick Tracts may actually be the most elaborate and profitable trolling in history.
Quote from: Rincewind1;649208Actually Jack Chick is apparently a man of the mystery - there is a notion that Chick Tracts may actually be the most elaborate and profitable trolling in history.
Anything that consistently, perfectly insane has to be artificially constructed.
Quote from: CRKrueger;649280Anything that consistently, perfectly insane has to be artificially constructed.
Chick himself is exactly what he presents himself as - a religious wingnut of the first order (go read his screeds on Catholics, if you want a real laugh).
I can't help but wonder, though, just how much communication was had over the exact nature of the proposed film. The Q&A questions make it very clear that this film is a parody. However, the guy behind seems to grasp the idea that the best, and funniest parody, is one that's played absolutely, perfectly straight. So we could end up with a film that blatantly makes fun of the film that Chick is perfectly happy with, as it accurately represents his own views.
That's hilarious. I'd watch it — once.
They should reach out to Stephen Colbert. He might help them out with some free publicity.
Quote from: RPGPundit;649181I'm amazed he got the rights.
Honestly, I don't think Jack has a clue. If there's one thing I've found most common in zealots, it's an inability to identify
irony and
satire.
He probably has a clue now though.
Also, it's not like this will be the first time a film director/producer absolutely destroys an authors work in the translation :)
Quote from: taustin;649316I can't help but wonder, though, just how much communication was had over the exact nature of the proposed film. The Q&A questions make it very clear that this film is a parody. However, the guy behind seems to grasp the idea that the best, and funniest parody, is one that's played absolutely, perfectly straight. So we could end up with a film that blatantly makes fun of the film that Chick is perfectly happy with, as it accurately represents his own views.
From the Kickstarter's comment section, after some backers expressed concerns about Chick ending up with their money:
QuoteI wrote Chick Publications Inc. explaining that I won $1000 in the lottery and that I wished to film Dark Dungeons. The tone and style of that letter was _very similar_ to that of my Kickstarter video. No where in that letter did I tell a lie just as no where in my video do I tell a lie. Every sentence was true. The only promise I made in that letter was that I would do my best to fully bring "Dark Dungeons" to life on the silver screen and that is a promise I intend to fulfill.
Chick Publications, Inc responded to my correspondence by giving me the rights to do a video of Dark Dungeons. They waved any fee to do this so that I could spend the entire $1000 on making my video. (I have already spent the entire $1000 in pre-poduction costs for the video.) They also turned down my request to obtain the merchandise rights to Dark Dungeons so I only have the right to film Dark Dungeons and can not make "Dark Dungeons the Flame Thrower" as I had wished.
They said that I would have the copyright to my video and the only stipulation they gave me was somewhere in the video I should include the following message, "Story based on "Dark Dungeons" by Jack T. Chick, LLC Copyright 1984" and I intend to do so."
If it's done right, this version will be indistinguishable from what Chick himself would do, were he to film it. Like the South Park episode on the Mormon church, there's no need to exaggerate, embellish, or mock. An absolute, 100% accurate portrayal of Chick's beliefs is far funnier than any parody could possibly be.
Fascinating. And yes, I agree with Taustin here.