Stan Lee: The Final Chapter - Documentary showing the exploitation of good ol' Stan.

[BrunoMattei]

I question why he needs $300K when the footage has been shot and he's apparently already paid for interviews with guests. Not unless this guy is planning to self-distribute this to theaters there's no reason to request for more money not unless you're commissioning a fancy orchestral score or something outlandish. You could argue he's shoring up money for lawyers but that time would come before setting up this Kickstarter.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The part that rubs me the wrong way is the fundraiser; even if it is being properly invested into the project, the optics of it are terrible and could hurt the credibility of whatever they show. I'd rather them just compile the evidence they have into a lower-budget project to get the necessary information out there, than try to make an elaborate thing of it.

I question why he needs $300K when the footage has been shot and he's apparently already paid for interviews with guests. Not unless this guy is planning to self-distribute this to theaters there's no reason to request for more money not unless you're commissioning a fancy orchestral score or something outlandish. You could argue he's shoring up money for lawyers but that time would come before setting up this Kickstarter.

The claim is that the guy already spent a lot of money doing the documentary. We don't know how much exactly or what he spend the money on, so it'd be great if he disclosures that.

Thing is, if I spend $1000 on a movie, and then I get a fundraiser for $1000, people might ask "why? if you already paid for it". Well, I want my investment back. I've see many people doing that on indy projects: they pay for them themselves and the fundraising is to recover that money. They aren't giving it away, they invested and want to recover their investment.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Thing is, if I spend $1000 on a movie, and then I get a fundraiser for $1000, people might ask "why? if you already paid for it". Well, I want my investment back. I've see many people doing that on indy projects: they pay for them themselves and the fundraising is to recover that money. They aren't giving it away, they invested and want to recover their investment.

Yeah but they need to disclose that. Either way, it doesn't paint a totally altruistic picture of the filmmaker.