Blame Veronica Mars – Now Zach Braff Thinks He Deserves Your $2 Million

The star of Scrubs, who almost certainly gets residual checks daily, is on Kickstarter. He wants you to fund a spiritual sequel to his highly unique, quirky indie in which a confused guy’s problems are all solved when Natalie Portman has sex with him. I think it was called Thor.

Does Garden State have the same fanbase as Veronica Mars? Somehow I doubt it. But there are other things that make this project significantly different:

1. The Veronica Mars Kickstarter was ok’ed by Warner Bros as a way to gauge interest. Braff actually had financing in place for this movie, but backed out because he wouldn’t get complete creative control. And then he insults his investors (though not by name) in the Kickstarter video.

2. He seems to think investors somehow wouldn’t want him to cast his celebrity friends, like they’re really going to tell the star of The Big Bang Theory “no thanks” to working for scale.

3. Oh yeah – part of the plot involves a cosplay contest, and he wants to film it at Comic-Con.

Wait…

Hold on a second…

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Bigger and more connected productions than yours have tried that and failed, Zach. Need I remind you of Paul, partly set at the Con but faking all the interior shots? You think having Chris Hardwick involved will help? I’ll see your Nerdist and raise you Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen realizing it was unfeasible.

4. Not even offering a DVD copy of the movie as an incentive?

5. Can somebody start a competing one to stop him from making another movie like Garden State? I just want to see if it will reach the goal faster.

6. Expect this to be just the first of many such endeavors. We can’t be too far away from Pauly Shore pitching a crowd-sourced Bio-Dome 2 with a video featuring famous comedians his mom forced to help him out.

The idea of Kickstarter was to fund independent projects that didn’t have a hope of financing otherwise. Not to give whiny celebrities an excuse to back out of an existing deal because they don’t want to negotiate with producers.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe he has a fierce integrity and loyal base that thinks he needs to just be handed more money. I’ll save my donations for people who genuinely need them.

Once you get past the presumptuousness, the video is amusing, though. Watch after the jump.