Has anyone ever seen Mel Brooks' "The Producers"? That story about how entertainment producers can get far more invested in a production than needed, guarantee the failure of the production with deliberate incompetance, and then pocket the cash?
Do you think that would work in the video game genre? Given that some current alternate business models recast the investor as a "customer" who has no ownership and is entitled to nothing back, it seems foolproof.
The fictional game production group would rake in 100X in advanced cash from "customers" who are offered no legally binding promises. They could spend X in slow, incompetant, imbalanced, self-sabotaged development. Then they would declare the effort a failure. In the end they could split the remaining 99X and retire with their fortune to Brazil...
Some one should write an updated, modern movie about that. I think it's a sure fire hit that present day audiences would relate to easier than broadway productions set in the 1960s...
Anyhow, how would you write the movie? Who would you cast?
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Mel Brooks And Video Games?
Started by Wendigo Vendetta, Jan 22 2013 04:10 PM
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