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RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - EirikMyhr - 02-11-2026
Horray for Blu-ray!!
And yes, please make it region free or region 2/B for us European folks!
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - mossrc - 02-11-2026
It'll be all regions/region free. We (as in CREATORVC) sell Blu-rays directly via our crowdfunding campaigns and "flash" sales, and those are of course open to people from all around the world, so it wouldn't make much sense to do region locking.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - mossrc - 03-18-2026
Update: We got three more people confirmed for interview — Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell, SCUMM programmer Brad Taylor, and LucasArts art department head (for the first half of the 90s) Collette Michaud.
Steve is particularly exciting, as besides Sam & Max Hit the Road we can talk to him about how they were putting Sam and/or Max into everything as Easter eggs, how he made character art and fed into the creative process for Loom, his memories of painting cover art and concept art for a number of LucasArts adventures, and the things he learnt about storytelling from making adventure games (which then fed into his work at Pixar).
In not so happy news, we're coming to the end of our "validation" for the project and it's not looking likely to make it. Our numbers have been okay, at 800+ signups to the waitlist/mailing list, but most of those signups came in a single week and the slow growth outside of that doesn't inspire confidence that we could get a few thousand people to drop $50-100 (or whatever price the biz guys land on) during a month-long crowdfunding campaign.
We'll see what happens over the next week or so, but I wouldn't be surprised if my exec producer pulls the plug soon.
I have been thinking about my options for a plan B, however, and I've decided that if the documentary gets cancelled then I'll pivot to telling the SCUMM story in a book — with the nice perk that I could interview a lot more people (maybe even *all* the people) for a book, since book interviews cost nothing other than time.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - sopabuena - 05-11-2026
I was wondering what happened with this project. Hopefully it keeps moving forward!
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - mossrc - 05-13-2026
I'll have more to share about what's happening soon, once all the pieces are in place, but the documentary is going on hiatus -- perhaps permanently, but I still hope to make it one day -- and I'm in talks with CREATORVC to release the book rights to me.
This would be a good outcome for me as it would mean the book could share the same name and high-level concept as the documentary, and that I'd be able to carry on directly with the work my team and I did to get to this point (rather than me having to start from zero again with a new title and concept). Then if the book sells well, we'll talk about getting the documentary going again.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - EirikMyhr - 05-13-2026
Sad to hear about the documentary hiatus – but if you ask me, a book is almost equally great – and in some ways, it is even better.
A book can be so much more expansive than a 90 minute documentary, you can spend as much time with each section as you want, you can pet it… A large, well-designed hardcover book is hard to match.
So I for one am still fully aboard, and will most certainly be backing this project.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - sopabuena - 05-13-2026
I'm sorry to hear about the hiatus too, but super excited about a possible book.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - Baron Blubba - 05-15-2026
I’d actually prefer a book! But sorry to hear that your film is on hiatus, that’s a bummer.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - rtrooney - 05-15-2026
Also sorry the hear about the status of the documentary. Question: You metioned that you were shooting for 1000 responders, and they would pledge from $50-100 each. I assume that would happen in Kickstarter of some other crowd funding venue. Did your research show that there was market for the documentary? Or was the research feet-on-the-ground type of stuff, I.e., you asked people to raised their hands if they were interested, and not enough people did?
Certainly people on this forum were interested. But they represent maybe .5% of the needed audience. So, while putting the projcet on haitus is needed, maybe it's time to rethink the objective. Maybe instead of a documentary, you could accomplish "almost" as much with a 60-min film. Cut back on the interviews and use 60-sec clips of the really salient points by the parties.