Lost Media that lived up to the hype

forlornjackalope

That's the weird part...

I only know what I've read and seen online, and as I mentioned the general..."theory", using the term loosely, revolves around some kind of conspiracy to launder money by the Church of Scientology. And when the best theory anyone can come up with sounds like the plot of a Simpsons episode something is amiss.

I have yet to see any kind of actual explanation, save for the fact that the actual STARS in the movie were broadcasting what can only be called Kickstarter campaigns via phone. I believe actual recordings of the cast asking for donations are known to exist, including the chick who voices Bart introducing hers with Bart's voice of all things, and then asking for a donation! It appears then, they got their money through some kind of legit donations, and possibly most or all of it went to hiring voice talent and paying for the music. If that's the case, then it explains why they went with such a cheap CGI team...another possibility is that the CGI was done in-house by someone who wrote the movie, possibly as a showcase for their own "talent". That Colin Slater guy who directed it?

Either way I can see, using simply the music--which includes Peabo Bryson of all people--and the voice talent which has Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Nancy Cartwright and Mark Hamill in it...yeah I can see where they spent the money. Possibly they blew it all on the music and voices? The part that makes that seem unlikely is again the concept art looks rather good actually, so they must have had some kind of plan. And if it was a "scam" it was stunningly expansive for a simple conjob. Or like I figure, they assumed they knew what they were doing and, well, they didn't to put it mildly. They were so arrogant they failed to actually SHOW the movie to anyone, during production, to see if anyone would compliment the animation...or if they would recoil in shock and run screaming from the room, like current day audiences tend to...