Doug Jones Documentary Kickstarter Launches to Finish Film
A Kickstarter campaign for doug jones documentary Get Me Doug Jones launched this week to help finish the feature-length film about the actor. Filming started last year, and the project now has a public push to get the rest of it across the line.
The documentary follows Jones from the American Midwest to becoming a sought-after performer in creature makeup and costumes. It also reaches back to early work on Mac Tonight, Batman Returns, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then moves through Hellboy I and II, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Star Trek: Discovery, What We Do in the Shadows, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Shape of Water.
William Conlin and Derek Maki
William Conlin is directing the documentary, and Derek Maki is producing it. That setup matters because the campaign is not framing Jones as a single-role nostalgia project; it is building a feature-length career survey with interview footage already in place.
The film also leans on the scale of his screen history. Jones played Saru on Star Trek: Discovery, and the documentary’s interview list already reaches into that world with Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala, Jayne Brook, and Anthony Rapp among the participants.
Ron Perlman and Bette Midler
Ron Perlman, Noah Wyle, Bette Midler, Harvey Guillén, Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala, Jayne Brook, and Anthony Rapp are all listed as interviewees so far. That is the kind of roster that signals a documentary built around working relationships, not just clip reels and retrospective narration.
The campaign’s rewards also give backers something tied directly to the productions being discussed. The listed perks include a Funko Pop Saru, signed scripts, signed photos, and one of the only remaining original Saru full face prosthetics from Star Trek: Discovery.
Saru Prosthetic Rewards
Backers can also send in photos of themselves with Doug to be included in the final credits. That turns the campaign into a participation channel as well as a funding drive, which is a smart move for a documentary built around a performer whose career has long depended on fans noticing work that often happens under heavy makeup.
The practical read is simple: this is the point where the film shifts from in-progress to community-financed completion. If the campaign draws enough support, the finished documentary will have both the interview bench and the collector-grade rewards to match Jones’s long run through genre film and television.
