A group of diehard Squaresoft fans have turned to Kickstarter to help fund Final Fantasy VII: The Web Series. The team behind this unofficial adaptation is looking for $400,000 to produce a miniseries which chronicles the journey of Cloud and company through the events of 1997's seminal PlayStation RPG.
The project boasts a crew with experience working on movies like Harry Potter, Kick-Ass, and Scott Pilgrim. The film is being written by Xander Williams, the author behind the popular FFVII fan-fiction "The Jenova Project." Their current plan is to produce five or six episodes that each clock in at about 15 minutes. This would consist of Season One, and would go from the start of the game to the infamous Midgar plate scene.
So that "possibly sanctioned" part? Well, turns out that the production team has been in contact with Square-Enix for quite some time. As detailed by the Kickstarter page, here are some of the steps the team has taken:
- We have sent several letters and emails to many departments of SE which we know have been received and read. Square's general legal counsel has been aware of this project for many months
- We have engaged in persistent dialog with the manager of SE online, who assured us that both the North American and European divisions were supportive of our efforts
- We have had the series trailer actually appear on the SE website
- We have acquired the music rights via a surrogate agency that gives us licensing permission with specific legal caveats.
Last September, the team released a proof of concept teaser that featuring Aeris slumming it around Midgar before a familiar hero comes crashing through the roof of her church.
Marty Sliva is an Associate Editor at IGN. He really loves it when a game has the courage to be completely earnest. Follow him on Twitter @McBiggitty and on IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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