AP2HYC: I know you’re trying to raise some money through the IndieGoGo site, how is that going?
Brady: I mean, we’re off to a bit of a slow start on the IndieGoGo site, which is okay, we’ve still got over [30] days left, so we’ll have some time for sure. But yeah, we really need people to start donating, so if you like the trailer, if you wanna see more, if you wanna see that pilot produced, if you could donate, that would be amazing. It starts as low as 10 dollars, and there’s all sorts of different perks, autographs, Skype sessions with members of the cast, on-set visits. We need that cash to produce the pilot, obviously it’s a very expensive thing to do. Without that IndieGoGo campaign being successful, we won’t be able to produce that, so we need the help of the fans.
Pete: And that’s the thing, we have all these connections, we have all the stuff that we need, aside from, realistically, more financial backing. This is something for fans that are watching the trailer or for anyone who’s interested in the project. This is something that is very, very real. Like I said, we have an outline that is essentially 12 episodes, we have the writers, we have producers, we have directors, we have the cameraman, we have it. Essentially, all we need is more financial backing. So if people are interested in this and they want to see this, we really need the help of the fans. Even if you just donate ten bucks or whatever it is on the IndieGoGo site, it’s super important because we want to move forward with this as much as anyone else who comments on it and says “This is awesome, I would love to see more!” This isn’t just some trailer where someone just did a trailer a few years ago and never touched it. We want to be moving forward. And in order to do that, we do need financial backing.
Brady: And I’ve seen a handful of other fan films in the last six months do campaigns like this and get their full funding, and I’m not here to say anything negative about any other fan film or anything like that, but I do believe that ours is a much higher quality and we have a crew of guys that are working currently in the film industry, you know? These aren’t people who are just picking up a video camera and making a home movie, this is professional stuff. We’re shooting on the RED camera, the same camera they used to shoot The Hobbit, the lighting is incredible, the costumes are great, actors from all over, stuff like that. It’s a big professional crew.
AP2HYC: I think that already shows in the trailer, and I know I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the series. So once you do get the funding, when do you think we’ll see the pilot?
Brady: We’d love to shoot over the summer at some point. Some of it depends on scheduling, with Taya’s schedule and myself and Pete’s schedules between filming other stuff. We’d love to shoot in the summer, with the release in the fall.
Pete: Start filming in the summer and not really quit. You can have so many epic shots too, depending on your seasons. I mean you think about classic graphic novels or stories where you have these epic kind of fall-time Gotham cemetery scenes. You have these winter scenes, stuff in the sewer. These are all things that are iconic to me and iconic to the books I think. And I wanna see them brought to life. Once we get rolling on it, it’s not something that we really want to give up on.
If you’d like to donate to help produce Nightwing: Prodigal Son, head over the the Kickstarter site here.
