Citizen George will be a funny time-travel comedy about geek history or a serious drama about power & control. YOU will choose which.

Citizen George will be a full length film about a director who creates a very popular Space Saga in the 1970’s only to make a very disappointing prequel trilogy 20 years later.  But whether it will be a time travel comedy or a serious drama is up to you.  That's because when I started working on this project and I had two great ideas of where I wanted it to go. 

Citizen George as a Serious Drama

I had this idea I loved where Citizen George would be a straight drama in the vein of Citizen Kane.  It would be about the rise and fall of a man who is a hero to many in geekdom and villain to others, just as William Randolph Hearst was to many in an earlier age of media.

Citizen George as a Time Travel Comedy

But at the same time, I also had an idea where Citizen George would be a sci-fi time travel comedy like Bill and Ted or Austin Powers.  In that story, The Director would time travel twenty years into the future and 1970's-Director would make the prequels instead of 1990's-Director.  Unlike future-Director, past-Director has not had decades of being surrounded by "yes-people" but he does have the added difficulty of missing out on twenty years of cultural change.  That version would be a lot lighter and more of a wish fulfillment fantasy but at the same time it too would also be a great way to explore how power affects people.  

I was trying to decide which of those two versions I most wanted to make when the idea hit me; why not let the backers decide?  Kickstarter is all about letting the fans choose what they want to see.  So why not take that to the next level?  Why not let you decide if Citizen George is going to be a comedy or a drama?  So that is exactly what I am going to do. 

On your right are rewards for Team Comedy as well as rewards for Team Drama. Whichever team ends up with the highest total dollar amount at the end of the Kickstarter, that is the team whose version will get made.  So, if at the end of this Kickstarter the total number of dollars from all Team Comedy rewards to the right is $75k and the total number of dollars from all Team Drama rewards to the right is $50k, then the entire $125k would be used to make Citizen George into the best darn comedy it could be.  And if the numbers were reversed (if it was 75k from Team Drama backers and $50k from Team Comedy backers) then the entire $125k would be used to make Citizen George into the best darn drama it could be.

For more info visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jrralls/citizen-george-every-saga-has-a-creator?ref=discovery