http://www.avclub.com/article/joel-hodgson-bringing-back-mystery-science-theater-228190
We've got movie sign, MSTies: Joel Hodgson, a.k.a. "Joel," has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 after 16 years. (It was canceled in 1999.) The campaign quietly appeared on the MST3K official website earlier this morning, confirming suspicions raised by vague promises of "big news coming soon" on the Rifftrax and MST3K social-media channels. The campaign has the rather lofty goal of $2 million, which Hodgson says will enable him to make three full-length episodes of MST3K to shop around to TV networks and streaming platforms. With three additional episodes per $1.1 million raised over the original goal, that's $5.5 million for a full 12-episode season. But if Zach Braff can do it, so can Joel and the bots.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:13PM
The shows were actually heavily scripted. They would go thru the movie 2-3 times and just pound out one liners. Go back re-edit them and make the 'script' or if they want some sort of theme to go along with it.
Also 1m for 3 episodes? For say 10-15 people involved (it is not 3 schmucks and and 2 puppets and a gopro). That may actually be too low. This is probably 3-6 months of prep work and the actual work is probably 2-3 weeks. Plus whatever fees the movies themselves want. Plus they are all probably union people now and that will cost extra.
Hopefully they will have Mike involved. He was the head writer for 6 years... Make him the 'villain' would be most funny. After years away from the SOL he went mad with power and tried to recreate his youth.