Observer: It’s crazy how this movie was made, with the Kickstarter and everything.
Alan Ritchson: When the show was cancelled and when it was done, I was sort of ready to move on with my life, as I think everyone was. Then we ended up selling the show to Netflix, still relatively early in Netflix’s existence. It exploded in popularity there. It was incredible to see how we were becoming more popular by the day, and we weren’t even making new content.
We went to Lionsgate. And Netflix notoriously doesn’t share data, so I don’t think Lionsgate was aware of what was happening, because they don’t walk outside and have fifteen people all of a sudden go ‘Oh my God you’re Thad Castle!” Even when we were making the show and when it was on TV, nobody did that. I convinced Lionsgate to give me the rights and let me go at it. We figured out the best way to go about it creatively, and that was the Kickstarter route, which allowed us to keep as much creative control as possible, and sort of double check to see if we really did have an audience.
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