Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:15:43 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Alex Cox crowdfunds Bill the Galactic Hero film via Kickstarter
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
The director of Repo Man, Alex Cox, is nearing a $100,000 target on the
crowdfunding site Kickstarter to fund science-fiction film Bill the
Galactic Hero.

With four days of his campaign to go, Cox has received $91,897 toward
what would be his first film since 2009's Repo Chick. The British
film-maker, who has struggled for studio funding since the financial
failure of his 1987 "acid western" Walker, intends to make the movie
with the help of his students at the University of Colorado.

Bill the Galactic Hero is based on the 1965 satirical sci-fi novel by
Harry Harrison, which was written as a counterweight to Robert A
Heinlein's neo-fascist 1960 book Starship Troopers (itself borrowed by
Paul Verhoeven for a 1997 film that heavily satirised its source's
militaristic leanings).
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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/apr/17/alex-cox-bill-galactic-hero-kickstarter>

mark
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