Stan Lee, endlessly immortal because the co-creator of so many basic Marvel Comics characters, died in 2018 on the age of 95. Now, former assistant/filmmaker Jon Bolerjack is elevating funds on Kickstarter to finish a documentary about Lee’s previous few years, entitled Stan Lee: The Last Chapter. And the story he plans to inform is a darkish one.
In accordance with the official Kickstarter, the documentary is “a rollercoaster of drama and duplicity,” because it explores how Lee “landed in the midst of a scandal as wild as any superhero saga”:
“The occasions are chronicled by filmmaker Jon Bolerjack who grew to become an assistant to Stan and a fixture of his interior circle. Jon gained unprecedented entry and filmed every thing he noticed. What he uncovered was a thriving market the place Stan’s signatures and memorabilia have been transformed into big piles of money and rival hucksters double-crossed one another to regulate Stan’s fortune. After years of amassing this footage he’s able to share this shockingly and actually heartbreaking story with the world.”
As The Hollywood Reporter uncovered in 2018, Lee spent the previous few years of his life contending with a number of forces making an attempt to take management over his property. Bolerjack explains within the under trailer that he needs “justice” for Lee, including that the mistreatment Lee acquired is “not hypothesis — it’s all on digicam.”
The Kickstarter marketing campaign now has 30 days to boost $300,000; as of writing, it at present has reached round $13,000. Try the trailer under, which incorporates comedian e book creators like Dustin Nguyen and Mark Waid sharing their reactions to the footage they’ve seen.