An try by Uwe Boll to boost $2.5 million in crowdfunding for a sequel to his dreadful 2007 Postal film—primarily based on the sport of the identical title—has predictably hit the rocks. All pledges have been cancelled and are set to be refunded mere days after the movie’s Indiegogo marketing campaign launched. That’s a complete of 16 pledges, by the best way, or about $850 of the movie’s total purpose.
The marketing campaign was launched on September 1, and pitched itself as a blow towards “political correctness, algorythm [sic] bullshit, woke and cancel tradition”. In an outline written by Boll himself, the director declared that “To do POSTAL 2… is nearly an obligation for the liberty of artwork, speech and life.”
Which is all fairly lofty, is not it? And that makes it all of the stranger that Boll did not truly launch the Indiegogo beneath his personal title. Although the director publicised the marketing campaign, it was launched beneath the title of Gary Otto—Boll’s co-host on his podcast Uwe Boll Raw USA—who appears to have been liable for all of the grunt work of working the entire thing.
Problem was, after all, that neither Boll nor Otto appeared to have knowledgeable Postal’s devs at Running With Scissors about it, and so they have been greater than a bit of baffled. In an replace posted on Facebook and shared to Twitter, RWS CEO Vince Desiderio wrote that “The Official place of RWS is we DO NOT assist this fundraising effort. I’ve no fuckin concept who Gary Otto, the mission proprietor is. No one has contacted us about this effort, and it is a main concern that he clearly states he can use any funds raised for an additional mission.”
That final bit refers to a be aware from Otto that—if the marketing campaign failed to boost the requisite $2.5 million, or another fully unforeseeable impediment cropped up—the cash would as a substitute go in direction of California Fried Movie, a sequel to Boll’s first movie German Fried Movie, which at the moment has 1.5 stars out of 10 on IMDB. “I’d like everybody to know that the cash on this marketing campaign will go in direction of both POSTAL 2 if the purpose is met,” wrote Otto within the marketing campaign’s backer dialogue part, “OR the idea will get redeveloped into ‘California Fried Movie’ with a lot of the identical content material.”
Oh, and all of the whereas Boll was posting on Twitter that $2.5 million would not truly be sufficient to make the movie the best way he needed to. “If we gather 2.5 mio [sic],” he wrote “I’ll give you one other 2.5 mio…to make it correct.” Boll supplied no perception as to the place or how he would magic up one other $2.5 million for a sequel to a movie everyone hated.
I’m no big-shot Hollywood exec, however I’m fairly certain that is not the way you’re meant to safe funding on your filmmaking goals. After RWS made its place on the movie clear, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Otto posted one other replace: “The movie is formally altering over to California Fried Movie with NO involvement from RWS.” By manner of apology to the 16 backers the marketing campaign had garnered by that time, Otto and Boll supplied every of them an Uwe Boll field set.
Alas, it appears to be like like they will by no means get it. Not lengthy after Otto posted that replace, the marketing campaign was completely suspended. Its title was modified to “Cancelled all pledges refunded we had no selection,” and Otto posted that “Uwe Boll informed me what he needed and I did that. Everything—all of the assaults and so forth I did nothing to deserve. If somebody cursed at you, referred to as you shady and a fraud, you’d in all probability not be very good again. Especially if you have been solely doing all your job.”
In a ultimate replace, Otto wrote that “Once we get the cash, I’ll refund it again to all of you. Have a pleasant life OK.”
Since then, social media tied to the marketing campaign has been erased. Otto’s Twitter account and the Twitter account for Uwe Boll Raw USA have each been deleted, leaving solely Boll’s private account as a supply for continued updates. In a video posted to the service, Boll alerted followers that “We needed to take the marketing campaign down, it is simply not price it.
“I believe, particularly on Twitter, some folks needs to be very sorry who insulted Gary Otto, who did every thing—what he needed to do—primarily based on my orders to him… Now it is solely me on Twitter left.” Meanwhile, “Everybody who paid cash will get the cash again or get the prize, I do not know the way precisely it really works.”
Anyway, lengthy story quick: The whole mission ended as a flaming trainwreck. “We’re not shifting ahead with the crowdfunding,” says Boll in the identical video. But do not surrender hope, Postal-heads! “Doesn’t imply that we’ll by no means shoot the movie,” he says, “we’ll see.” Heck, even RWS is not completely postpone by the entire thing. In the exact same replace wherein Vince Desiderio mentioned the studio had nothing to do with Boll’s marketing campaign, he wrote that “We like Uwe and we sit up for the day our followers can see a brand new POSTAL film however not funded like this.”
But, simply between you and me, I would not place any bets.
