Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are
An attempt by Uwe Boll to raise $2.5 million in crowdfunding for a sequel to his dreadful 2007 Postal movie—based on the game of the same name—has predictably hit the rocks. All pledges have been cancelled and are set to be refunded mere days after the film's Indiegogo campaign launched. That's a total of 16 pledges, by the way, or about $850 of the film's overall goal.
The campaign was launched on September 1, and pitched itself as a blow against «political correctness, algorythm [sic] bullshit, woke and cancel culture». In a description written by Boll himself, the director declared that «To do POSTAL 2… is almost a duty for the freedom of art, speech and life.»
Which is all quite lofty, isn't it? And that makes it all the stranger that Boll didn't actually launch the Indiegogo under his own name. Although the director publicised the campaign, it was launched under the name of Gary Otto—Boll's co-host on his podcast Uwe Boll Raw USA—who seems to have been responsible for all the grunt work of running the whole thing.
Problem was, of course, that neither Boll nor Otto seemed to have informed Postal's devs at Running With Scissors about it, and they were more than a little baffled. In an update posted on Facebook and shared to Twitter, RWS CEO Vince Desiderio wrote that «The Official position of RWS is we DO NOT support this fundraising effort. I have no fuckin idea who Gary Otto, the project owner is. No one has contacted us about this effort, and it's a major concern that he clearly states he can use any funds raised for another project.»
That last bit refers to a note from Otto that—if the campaign failed to raise the requisite $2.5 million, or some other completely unforeseeable obstacle cropped up—the money would instead go towards California Fried Movie, a sequel to Boll's first film German Fried Movie, which currently has 1.5 stars out of 10 on IMDB. «I’d like everyone to know that the money in this campaign will go towards either POSTAL 2 if the goal is
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