Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk Developing CON MAN Comedy Produced by You!
Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are teaming up to bring us a comedy series called Con Man, and they want you, the fans, to produce it. They started an Indiegogo campaign so you can help support the project, which is inspired by their experience with geek conventions after Firefly was cancelled, and it's described as “Extras meets Galaxy Quest.”
I’m already sold on the fact that these guys are teaming up again so they can give us a series for our geek entertainment pleasure! Of course, you want a little more information than that, so here’s a description of the series that Tudyk wrote up:
Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk-Me!) was a co-star on Spectrum, a sci-fi series which was canceled -Too Soon- yet became a cult classic. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Nathan Fillion) starred in the series and has gone on to become a major movie star. While Jack enjoys the life of an A-lister, Wray tours the sci-fi circuit as a guest of conventions, comic book stores, and lots of pop culture events. The show will feature all the weird and crazy things that happen to Wray along the way to these events.
The series is a light-hearted take on the personalities, luminaries, and characters in the sci-fi community we are privileged to call ourselves members. Con Man is a way to share some of the surreal occurrences we have had, while telling the story of a guy learning to love and embrace his fans.
I wanted to make a show that featured all of my favorite convention artists and friends together. Not only that, I wanted to celebrate the world where heroes, villains, zombie hunters, and space pirates all overlap. I especially wanted to work with my friend Nathan Fillion again.
This sounds like it has the potential to be an incredibly fun show that fans are going to love. The initial goal for the project was $425,000 for three episodes, but since the campaign was launched on March 10th it already has over $1.1 million! This means that they will at least get to produce 7 episodes, and the more money they get, the more episodes they'll make. The fans are really stepping up to the plate and helping these guys develop their series, and it's awesome!
This is exciting, and I can’t wait to see how it turn out! Watch Tudyk and Fillion explain the series below.