CHARLIE KAUFMAN And ‘COMMUNITY’ Creator Dan Harmon Teaming Up On Stop-Motion Flick.

Look at this wizardly team-up of quirky proportions. Dan Harmon and Charlie Kaufman are joining arms, in hopes of bringing a stop-motion flick to the world.

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Some projects sound too good to be true. Lucky for us, we live in an age where they don’t have to be.

Of course, such optimism does little to counter the realities of the modern film industry model, which is currently taking its toll on Charlie Kaufman‘s sophomore directorial effort Frank or Francis (currently stuck in development limbo), just as it did At the Mountains of Madness before it, and hundreds of other please-let-this-happen endeavors that failed to scrounge up the financing necessary to be brought to fruition.

But what of more budget-conscious efforts? With marketing and director Guillermo del Toro‘s proposed $150 million price tag, At the Mountains of Madness was looking at a cost of well over $200 million. Comparatively, getting Charlie Kaufman‘s latest screenplay produced requires a paltry 200 grand investment. And thanks to Kickstarter, you can contribute however much or little as you deem appropriate in order to help make this dream project a reality.

And what a dream project it is. Charlie Kaufman teaming up on a stop-motion film with Community creator Dan Harmon and Moral Orel & Mary Shelley’s Frankenholecreator Dino Stamatopoulos? Even knowing nothing of the film’s story (other than it being about “a man crippled by the mundanity of his life”, which could describe any of Kaufman’s films), the creative minds backing it are more than enough to induce a healthy dose of mental whiplash. On closer inspection though, the pairing makes a weird sort of sense. Despite each member of this off-kilter trifecta bringing with them their own niche brand of schizoid outlandishness, their worlds have clashed on more than one occasion.

Fucking radical.