First of all, a big congratulations to MARC ZICREE of SPACE COMMAND for raising more than $57K from nearly 700 backers in his latest Kickstarter. It’s a challenging time to be crowd-funding, and the latest campaign did struggle over the past few weeks. But for a project with a goal of $48K, surpassing that by nearly 20% is quite impressive.
This latest campaign will fund the shoot for the fourth hour of Space Command, part 2 of “Forgiveness.” Hour one (part 1 of “Redemption”) is completed and can be viewed here. Hours two and three are in post production, and hour four will go into production just as soon as society is allowed to leave our homes and come into contact with each other again…which could be weeks or it could be months.
In the meantime, actors still like to hone their craft, even if they can’t leave their homes…and Space Command creator Marc Zicree is giving them a chance to do just that! As I mentioned last week, Marc is writing a special episode of Space Command titled “Ripple Effect.” It will take place in the continuity of the Space Command universe, featuring characters from the two episodes that are being produced so far plus introducing a bunch of new ones.
The actors themselves won’t have to leave their homes. Instead, each one will be able to film themselves using their own camera. The footage will be uploaded, and Marc and his post production team will edit the pieces, add VFX, adjust sound and color balance, and turn it all into a special “free” episode (no crowd-funding) that will be posted publicly to YouTube.
Even more exciting is that Marc is planning to allow fans to watch the post production process every step of the way through completion.
When first I mentioned this last week, only a few of the actors had signed up for the project. But Marc was in the process of talking to more of them, and this past weekend he announced a growing cast confirmed to appear. These include:
- NICHELLE NICHOLS (Star Trek)
- ROBERT PICARDO (Star Trek: Voyager)
- ETHAN PHILLIPS (Star Trek: Voyager)
- MIRA FURLAN (Babylon 5, Lost)
- BILL MUMY (Babylon 5, Lost in Space)
- MICHAEL HARNEY (Orange is the New Black, Project Blue Book)
- BRYAN McCLURE (Atlanta, Doom Patrol)
- BARBARA BRAGG (Carol’s Acting Class, American Horror Story)
The full cast of Space Command is even more extensive than that, so I suspect we’ll see yet more names added to the above list. It sounds like a fun project, and I’d imagine actors are itching to act during this stay-at-home crisis (or at least read Shakespearean sonnets). So we’ll see what happens.
And of course, once Marc starts offering fans a look at how the project is progressing, I’ll be sure to keep you all in the loop!