This now-cancelled Indiegogo Campaign is a trainwreck we missed when it launched a few days ago to finance a new Postal movie from "filmmaker" Uwe Boll. The fundraiser was launched by Boll's podcast partner Gary Otto, and a video from Boll promotes the campaign. Prior game adaptations Boll crapped out over the years took advantage of German tax credits, but since this loophole is now closed, financing a new film with OPM would have to take advantage of someone else. This is where things get weird, as PC Gamer explains that all of this was apparently done with no regard to ownership of the IP and without the knowledge or permission of rights holder Running With Scissors. You may need to shower after reading the details:

Problem was, of course, that neither Boll nor Otto seemed to have informed Postal's devs at Running With Scissors about it, and they were more than a little baffled. In an update posted on Facebook and shared to Twitter, RWS CEO Vince Desiderio wrote that "The Official position of RWS is we DO NOT support this fundraising effort. I have no fuckin idea who Gary Otto, the project owner is. No one has contacted us about this effort, and it's a major concern that he clearly states he can use any funds raised for another project."

That last bit refers to a note from Otto that—if the campaign failed to raise the requisite $2.5 million, or some other completely unforeseeable obstacle cropped up—the money would instead go towards California Fried Movie, a sequel to Boll's first film German Fried Movie, which currently has 1.5 stars out of 10 on IMDB. "I’d like everyone to know that the money in this campaign will go towards either POSTAL 2 if the goal is met," wrote Otto in the campaign's backer discussion section, "OR the concept will get redeveloped into 'California Fried Movie' with much of the same content."

Oh, and all the while Boll was posting on Twitter that $2.5 million wouldn't actually be enough to make the film the way he wanted to. "If we collect 2.5 mio [sic]," he wrote "I will come up with another 2.5 mio...to make it proper." Boll offered no insight as to where or how he would magic up another $2.5 million for a sequel to a film everybody hated.