2000 AD Online Forum

Well...not just got but i know what i mean. As im only 12.. i have NO IDEA what its about. Help. If its got anything to do with being in a movie IM THERE!!

"Today you will play jazz, tomorrow you will betray your country!"


LOOK AT HIM GO!!

It seems to be a request for investment in the 2000AD films company. Oddly for a new flotation, 50p ordinary shares are being sold for ?1 per share, with a minimum investment of 2000 shares (i.e. ?2000 pounds).

There's no prospectus as yet, so no indication as to which films (if any) are intended to be made by this company, how many shares are to be issued or (if this company is going to be making films) what stage those projects are at, distributors pn board, etc, etc.

In other words, IMHO, it's too early to say whether this is "interesting news" or not.

Roy

Well it's very interesting.
But ?2000? Get real.

I'm willing to enter a joint investment with other boarders, if anyone's interested.

I'll need one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine more people.

Sign up here!

- Trout

I'll go for that, your Highness.

1998 to go!! In fact, what say we up it to a tenner each? Could we get 98 others?

Or even 198? :o)

Im up for a tenner trouty. Just 197 now. But we need some kind of collaborative name...

The Independant Free Kingdom of Trout (est. 2000ad)

Count me in (if you *actually* get this going, that is)

me to a can afford to lose ?10, be amazed if anything ever got made though

This sounds disconcertingly like the makers trying to get a cash advance to get their project off the ground.  Which suggests, surely, that they've failed to establish any other financial backing.

Hasn't something like this happened before?  I seem to remember two or three years ago there was a British sci-fi movie project which invited fans to "invest" (ie: send them cash optimistically); they managed to shoot a couple of scenes before going belly-up.  It received a lot of coverage in SFX at the time; can anybody remember what it was called?

I'm not saying that I don't trust the producers; I'm sure they're doing their utmost to get the movie(s) rolling.  And Dog Soldiers proved that it is still possible to make a successful British genre movie.  But I'm not holding my breath, and this announcement certainly doesn't instill me with much confidence.

Trough, raising a cynical eyebrow

I think it was called "Legionnaires".

*J*

That's the fella.

I heard varying things about that venture.
Seems like loads and loads of things went wrong that was their fault and not their fault. It was closed down when they weren't far off getting most done.
I think one problem is that it costs millions to get anything done nowadays and you just can't finance a proper venture that way.
Blair Witch only did well because a company picked it up and marketed it well.

You've got my tenner if you can get it going, although if you take the money and run...

Troutster..

I'll certainly be up for a tenner. Perhaps mor e if they were to accept a joint bid.

What if some put in ?20 or ?50?

As someone who's unlikely to run away from this site, I'd be willing to coordinate a %in %out split on an investment. I think multiples of ?20 would be most appropriate. The more you risk, the more you might gain if the films are ever actually made.

Wake

I would put in a couple of hundred maybe. There was a company a few years ago that used this method fronted by Brian Blessed that made a couple of (ok)Scottish history dramas ('Chasing the Deer' and 'The Bruce') which were alright films but their respective bugdets were about 0.5M pounds each. You would not get much of a JD movie for that unless it was all set in the cursed earth perhaps (and even then filmed on location in Lanarkshire on the coal slag heaps).  

I'm up for it, and I'd quite happily chip in ?50

Put me down for ?50 as well, assuming we ever get it all together.

Id also make a donation of at least a tenner, maybe more dependant on my monetary status and wether we get something organised

-Yer Slippo

OK then.  This seems like it could work.

Put me down for ?50 too Wake.

So far that's

?50
Wake
HRH Something Fishy
McNulty
Demon_chicken

?10 (might need to be encouraged upwards)
King Troutman
Strontium Doug
Matt
Hexen
Oddboy
Moly
Slippery Jim

which makes ?270.

I might go higher too, depending on what the prospectus reads like.

Wake

i would be part of this as well
im in for fifty pounds sterling,
im not so bothered about the returns myself, just the idea if this took off, it might help with publicity which can only  be good for rebelloin and in turn tooth,.
win win for  all of us.

Screw it - put me down for ?20 (Bastard bank cashpoint stole a twenty the other week so I guess I'm used to losing that much!)

Wake - would it be possible to add a box on the sign in page for the ammount you want to invest, & then have a page showing the results - that way we can easily see how much is raised & how much we've promised etc kinda like an 'official' poll?

IIRC, a lot of the investors in LEGIONNAIRES had the opportunity to appear as extras in the film.  Maybe they could do soemthing like that with whatever they plan to produce with this budget of ?410?

On the current budget, we should be able to get "stars" of the calibre we see on "Help, I'm a celebrity. Get me out of here!"

I've just made a poll for it. However, since people kept going for ?50, I've made the three lowest steps ?10, ?25 and ?50.

As with other polls, you can see how much you've voted for and what other people have voted, but not who else has voted (though I can retrieve this from the database).

Cheers,

Wake

Link: Share scheme poll

OK, OK. Ill sit on 25 at the moment. But if all goes I could be persuaded a little higher.

Looks like this is almost turning into a serious proposal! Bump me up to ?50 Wake. Cheers.

I'm now ignoring this list in favour of the poll. Please could everyone vote there.

Cheers,

Wake

Link: Vote here

I'd gladly throw some cash there way if I could have a Judge (or block maybe) named after me.

Link: http://www.ximoc.co.uk

Quite Uncle, quite. 1235 pounds and growing...

"1235 pounds and growing..."

With another ?50 from me, subject to seeing something resembling a prospectus.

Of course, I may decide to up the contribution if prospectus is, like,  awesome (dude) ...

Cheers

Jim

Any chance of having an online prospectus?

Well, I've chipped in ?100 - and I'll have to see what the prospectus has to say before committing myself (or upping any investment).

Any word on when details would be forthcoming?

Roy

thats the best suggestion i have read yet, investors get a judge or citi block named after them, now thats a serouilsly good idea.or maybe a perp even, devons daddy the worst speller in mega city one, i like that sound of that.
but wake good stuff with the poll.

Okay - 4 of you crazy chickadees has clicked on the ?500 option.
That's enough for the ?2,000 minimum, so what happens now?

I'm down for ?50, because it doesn't pay for a king to be too extravagant.

I have to keep my money for new hospital, and orgies and things.

BTW, since it was your king's idea, I expect our joint effort to be named after me. Arrogant? Moi?

But well done to Wake for taking on the responsibility.

- Trout

Nothing until I get a prospectus, which won't be for several weeks. Then we think again, I email details to people who voted and then I start handing round the 2000AD Online collection tin.

Wake

I'd imagine that we could put in as much as we get together. The minimum is 2k but I'd imagine it wouldn't have to be 4k for more.

sounds like the judges will be around soon !

At that point, will you send us an address to which we can post our money Wake?

"The minimum is 2k but I'd imagine it wouldn't have to be 4k for more. "

With the total standing at ?3640 (I think), we ain't that far off the four grand as it is ...

Cheers

Jim