The project didn't meet its goal of $250,000 and was deemed unsuccessful by Kickstarter. It sucks. Now, I feel bad for Daniel Benedict and the other folks involved in the project. It's not a huge amount of money, movie wise. STREET FIGHTER ASSASSIN'S FIST cost 2.5 MILLION to make. Benedict was asking for a tenth of that.
Alas, it was not meant to be. $250,000 is still a lot of money for most folks. The first short was barely 12K. Most of the fan film campaigns I've seen rarely request over 10K. There's Spider-Man: Lotus with its 100K budget, but Spider-Man is waaaaaaay higher in the Fandom totem pole than He-Man. The fact that FoGS 2 managed to collect over 85K is a success. Sure, it wasn't enough for the goal that Benedict had in mind, but here we are.
Perhaps he should consider a scaled back version with a smaller budget and aim for a short instead of a full feature length film and rely on green screen for the sake of a smaller budget. I know it betrays everything Benedict wanted to do, but unfortunately, he was unable to acquire the budget needed for a full feature movie with little to no green screen.
In any case best of luck to the folks involved and hopefully they can find a way to tell the story they want to tell.
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