With over 700 backers gathered in less than a week, the new epic four-movie project “Space Command,” by “Star Trek” screenwriter-producer-director Marc Zicree, is lighting up the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter.
“Space Command” is a reinvention of Zicree’s favorite 1950s sci-fi TV books, shows and movies, such as “Forbidden Planet," “The Martian Chronicles” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and in just six days has amassed a phenomenal $88,545, shooting past the $75,000 budget needed to make the first movie.
With other sci-fi luminaries involved, such as Emmy-winning visual effects guru Doug Drexler (“Defiance” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation”) and producer-director Neil Johnson (“Alien Armageddon” and “Battlespace”), “Space Command” is, as Zicree explains, an exercise in a “better way of making our dreams come true.”