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Some Filmmakers Are Crowdfunding a Doc About Ken Kesey's Son and the New Era of Pranksters

It will be a movie sequel to Tom Wolfe's legendary book, 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.'

Fifty years ago, author Ken Kesey loaded a multicolored school bus full of his friends and a bunch of then-legal LSD and took a cross-country road trip, almost single-handedly kickstarting the Hippie movement. Last summer, Kesey's son Zane decided to Kickstart his own bus trip—he crowdsourced enough money to get the Prankster's bus, Furthur, back in shape, and hit the road with a band of neo-Merry Pranksters for a multi-month lap around the states.

Ken Kesey's original trip and the events that followed were immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Zane Kesey decided to do his dad one better—for his second bus trip, he brought along an entire film crew. That crew, Lotus Eaters Films, is in the middle of cutting the hours and hours of footage down into a full documentary, and they've turned to IndieGoGo to get the funding to push the film to completion.

The crowdfunding campaign ends this weekend. It's already hit its goal, but the Lotus Eater team can always use the extra dough to make sure the doc is a fitting sequel to Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

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