 Separate from the Citizen Siege project but utilising the same machinima technology, the studio halted development before shopping the concept around because the 2008 global financial crisis meant no film publisher would take a risk on them for a $30–40 million project, and Lanning believes "Hollywood is a disaster right now".While Citizen Siege and its associated projects are on hold, Lanning maintains that he wants to tell those stories, but "that I'm going to have to pay for it myself.And that's part of what the new business is about."