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Frank Zappa must have some of the most dedicated fans in music history. A Kickstarter for a documentary based on the departed rock icon’s life has just surpassed every other publicly-funded project in the website’s history. According to Deadline, the film, which will be directed by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) set a funding goal of $500K and has nearly doubled that with $880K and counting from only 6,100 backers. Previously, a project launched by Bill Nye “The Science Guy” had claimed the highest-grossing title with $859K in funds with nearly three times the amount of backers. The new champion, the documentary to be titled Who The F*@% Is Frank Zappa, was greenlit by the Zappa family who consequently gave Winter full access to the artist’s vault. Zappa died in 1993 from cancer, but thanks to the generous contributors, his legacy will continue to live on.
In other news…
Freeform, formerly known as ABC Family, is venturing into the Marvel universe with a brand new superhero series dubbed Cloak and Dagger. The show will follow the comic book romance of the dynamic duo whom, if you’ve read the comic book, fight crime together as the perfect pair. [Variety]
Netflix announced today that it has officially acquired the rights to Death Note, Adam Wingard’s anime-based series, which will begin filming in June and will star Paper Towns’ Nat Wolff. Let’s see what kind of trouble the cryptic notebook unleashes, courtesy of the Netflix adaptation. [Variety]
Musician/actor Tom Waits has been cast in Hulu’s upcoming Alfonso Gomez-Rejon-directed series Citizen, filling the role of a priest who runs a guerilla humanitarian operation. We can’t wait to see the musician, who has some supernatural tendencies of his own, fill the seemingly eerie role. [Pitchfork]
If you’re a subscriber of Cablevision’s Optimum TV, you’ll notice when you turn on your boob tube later that you now have an actual Hulu channel lurking amongst your standard cable channels. Better yet: It’s now included in your service plan! [The Verge]
Michael is a music and television junkie keen on most things that are not a complete and total bore. You can follow him on Twitter — @Tweetskoor
