Posted on 11/10/2015 2:39:42 PM PST by Morgana
In a not-too-distant future, you could be watching brand-new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Joel Hodgson, the creator and original host of MST3K, has turned to Kickstarter to campaign for a new season of the cult-classic movie-riffing series. Returning to the line-up are the original bots, Tom Servo and Crow, to mock and joke through each unbearable film.
The asking price? $2 million is the initial goal, which will allow the team to shoot three brand new episodes of MST3K. Each additional $1.1 million after that will allow them to shoot another three episodes, up to 12 episodes.
The goal of all this isn’t just to bring Mystery Science Theater 3000 back for a single run, however, but to prove to the world that fans want the show back in the hopes of getting picked up by another network. In the Kickstarter campaign pitch, Hodgson writes:
If we want a lot more MST3K, we need to work together to prove that there’s still an audience out there that wants MST3K – and that this isn’t all some pitiable delusion – so that we can find a network or online platform who will agree to pick up the show and keep it going… hopefully for another 200+ episodes.
(Excerpt) Read more at pastemagazine.com ...
Don’t forget rights to run these old films.
Just doing a basic 3 camera talking head and making it look good isn’t exactly cheap. I spent enough time in TV production land.
Just me doing my stock clips has some costs such as camera, support equipment, hiring of talent when appropriate among other things.
Ping
And just like that the world is a better place.
“With out sponsors it’s tough to do this...”
I see it a bit differently. This is or should not be an expensive show to produce. “Sponsors” generally arise after a show has proven to be an audience-grabber.
I remember the show well and thought it was very clever and funny, though I was not an obsessive fan.
But there are some things I do not understand about the situation. Wikipedia says 197 episodes were produced....that’s plenty for a syndication. And the series won a fair number of awards etc; so what’s the problem with re-running existing episodes?
[suspected answer: He doesn’t own them]
Why is not the show being re-run as is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNZwJTp9nM
Loved what they did with that Joe Don Baker movie “Mitchell”.
There are plenty of old public domain crapola films that they can use.
Rhino Video is selling the old episodes at a pretty steep price.
I’m glad there are and they deserve to be made fun of.
I’ve enjoyed Rifftracks and Rifftracks live events.
WooHoo! Join us...
Surprised TomServo hasn’t checked in on this thread yet.
Maybe they could riff on the Debates...
For the Dems, they could substitute intelligent, substantive thoughts. Imagine Hillary saying something substantive and truthful! That’d have me on the floor in hysteria...
LOL
True!
It's a hilarious concept and show, but the creators were all libs.
Now I understand the $2M figure. The first $1.5M will go to lawyers.
Hot Damn!!!
When I see some of the videos on youtube that are produced for next to nothing and rival network broadcast quality, I have to wonder about this $2.2M figure.
Oh I dunno, did you figure obamacare into the cost?
Friggin’ sweeeet!!
Thanks for the ping.
One of my favorites was Pod people with crazy kicking ol’ Trumpy.
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