Actor and
director Zach Braff has raised $1.5m (£970,000) to fund the follow-up to cult
film Garden State.
More than 20,000 fans donated money within 24 hours
through a "crowd-sourcing" website.
Wish I Was here will feature Braff in the lead role
as a struggling actor who has to home-school his children.
"I want you to be my financiers and my audience
so I can make a movie for you with no compromises," Braff said in his appeal
to fans.
The Emmy-winner wrote online that he did not want to
lose his "artistic control" by signing a deal with a film studio.
"It would have involved making a lot of
sacrifices I think would have ultimately hurt the film," he said.
Big Bang Theory
actor Jim Parsons is lined up to co-star in the film, with Braff's Scrubs
co-star Donald Faison likely to make a cameo.
Braff, who
wrote the screenplay with his brother Adam, said he was inspired by the success
of the campaign to bring TV detective series Veronica Mars to the big screen.
"I
couldn't help but think maybe there is a new way to finance smaller, personal
films that didn't involve signing away all your artistic control," he
wrote on his donation page.
Cinematographer
Larry Sher, who worked with Braff on Garden State and the Hangover comedy
trilogy, has joined the actor on the new project.
Other projects
to have benefited from similar campaigns include animated films The Goon, which
raised $442,000 (£296,000), and Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, for which $406,000
(£272,000) was pledged by fans.
Source: BBC
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