British director Nick Love has launched a
website to help raise funds for his next film project
Outlaw.
Love's production banner, Vertigo Films, is hoping to raise $5 million in donations from the public.
Donations can be made for $20, $100, $200. Donors, however, will not take a profit from box office receipts. Instead they will be offered T-shirts and sweatshirts, access to exclusive chat rooms, invitations to screenings and even the chance to be an extra in the movie.
Love's previous movies, 'The Football Factory' and 'The Business', are said to have won him a fanatical following among young British males, and has done well in DVD sales.
Producer Allan Niblo says he had received many offers from studios and private investors to fund the movie, but declined them down in order to appeal directly to fans.
"We have tracked 1.6 million fans coming through the Web sites for Nick's films, and in the online chatrooms they say that they'd love to be much more involved," Niblo said.
Outlaw follows the story of a group of people who take the law into their own hands in a crime-ridden, socially unjust Britain, meting out punishments to the guilty.