Party Monsters Nearing Kickstarter Goal; Help Tyler Requa Bring Them to Life
Debi Moore
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We know that you guys are probably a bit fatigued by all the various Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaigns out there these days, but when we heard about Tyler Requa’s Party Monsters, we thought it worthy of a mention. Especially because it’s only a few thousand dollars away from its goal!
The Party Monsters Kickstarter campaign just has two weeks to go, and the details are as follows:
The 19th century’s most notorious literary characters, out of step with the times, find camaraderie as roommates in modern-day Los Angeles…
After inheriting her grandmother’s old collection of dusty books, a young woman from a small town in Washington comes across several journals that reveal decades of thoughts and stories written by a doctor called Henry Jekyll.
Meanwhile, hidden behind the walls of a castle in the Hollywood Hills and clueless of where his lost journals could have wound up, this mysterious Dr. Jekyll (Chad Lindberg) and his peculiar friends – Frankenstein’s Monster (Robert Mukes), Dorian Gray (Jeff Branson), The Phantom of the Opera, and the occasional visitor Mr. Hyde (Lindberg) – have managed to maintain a relatively low profile… up until now.
As they are forced back into society fueled by a new designer drug from Dr. Jekyll and fight over morality, women, the dishes, and everything in between, back in Washington, the young woman dives into countless pages of Dr. Jekyll’s thoughts that unveil hilarious events and bizarre secrets from their past, including scientific findings, encounters with iconic figures, and a connection with historical murder mysteries.
Tyler Requa (The Flats) is the project’s creator, and Elen Santana is its producer. Along with the actors mentioned above, Mary Elise Hayden has also signed on and will be playing the role of Mary, aka the Bride of Frankenstein.
The goal is to treat the project as a pilot given the changing landscape of the television business and all of the opportunities that the disruptive and new technology and business models are making available to content creators. They hope to have something exciting and fresh to show to all of the traditional cable channels that are spending more and more on original programming like HBO, Epix, Starz, and Showtime as well as direct-to-consumer platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Apple.
Check out the pitch video and a few character portraits below. If you like what you see, be sure to help out the Party Monsters campaign.
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