We're on pace for an Indiegogo campaign to fund "The Silver Splitter" for late 2027 release.
The picture will be budgeted at exactly $99,999.99 so we can demonstrate what we can produce for under 100K.
We'll need to "sell" 500 X $200 perks, although we're prepared to shoot the film for half of that and may close the limited offering then, depending on any equity interest (one millionaire with pocket change).
We already have commitments for a couple hundred or so talking to old friends on the phone for a few hours, and if we crowd fund we get to own it all.
We're planning to shoot in Spring, after a 35-day campaign. And we won't necessarily be scheduling for rain. It might be more prescient for the characters to talk about how dry everything is--so we'll be independent of weather as long as it's cool.
Casting coming as soon as we secure a primary location (and we're working hard on that).
Here's a "final" draft, renumbered according to the edited material, although we'll stay open to actor's interpretations.
And a tune we wrote that we may use in the soundtrack, "A Long, Long Time."
BTW, we won't be banking on social media for our own promotion, although we will create some SM content (did I say that right?) and a website, and be screening in festivals.
The people who buy it can promote it any way they want to. However, hiring an actor because they have more "hits" than another is one of the things that's wrong with Hollywood--it eliminates originality statistically, and those data are easily manipulated.
We're also considering changing Korg's name, because it's so commonly used now (a trend we helped set in 1987 with the publication and distribution of our short story, "The Silver
Splitter".)