Teenage trio in £1m movie drive

Web User October 7, 2008Three young film producers are turning to the net to raise £1m so that they can turn a Jules Verne novel into a movie. The trio, Benjamin Robbins from Bucks, Adrian Bliss and Toby Stubbs from Herts, all aged 17, are currently studying for their A-levels.

They want to make an adaptation of Clovis Dardentor, a relatively unknown novel by French author Jules Verne.
But to do so they reckon they need £1m and so have set up a website where members of the public are invited to buy credits for £1. In return investors will be credited at the end of the feature film.
Clovis Dardentor, written in 1896 by the author of Around the World in Eighty Days tells the story of two young cousins who try to save the life of a rich industrialist in order to claim his fortune.
 

Adrian Bliss told Web User that the project is currently at the storyboarding stage at the Elstree Studios.
Bliss said that outside of Hollywood "it is very, very difficult for people" to raise money to make movies and that is why they set up the 'buyacredit' scheme.
So far they have raised £2,500 since the website was launched in May but Bliss said they are determined to reach the million pound mark.
www.buyacredit.com