Joel Hodgson is announcing Tuesday that his beloved cult creation Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming back after 15 years of dormancy.
“We’ve been talking about doing this for five years now, so it’s taken a long long time to get it to happen,” Hodgson told EW last week via phone. His first order of business is to launch a crowdfunding campaign at Bring Back MST3K, a project he hopes will have a multi-pronged effect: Not only will he raise some funds to produce new episodes of the show, but he also hopes it will act as both a promotional tool and as a way to gather together everybody who contributed to the show in the past. “The crowdfunding is kind of this big gathering, and not only is it gathering the audience but it’s also gathering together the people who want to get involved,” says Hodgson.
Source and more: EW
Hours after launching a Kickstarter campaign to revive a TV show that made it fun to watch horrible movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson has raised more than $500,000 — a quarter of his $2 million goal.
If the fundraising campaign is successful, the Mystery Science Theater team could start a new run of up to 12 feature-length episodes next July, depending on the amount of donations over the next month.
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