It might be too late now considering it leaked everywhere, but Spike Jonze’s short, “We Were Once A Fairytale” starring Kanye West will be available for purchase starting next Tuesday (October 26) on iTunes.
Jonze admits the leak caught him off guard. “This is the first time it’s happened to me,” he told the NYTimes. “And it is a weird feeling, like, ‘Wait a second — I wasn’t ready to put that out! That’s mine. Uh, no, I guess it’s not mine anymore.’ ”
Will the short — which features a rodent creature that kills itself with a nice and a drunken, arrogant West in an L.A. nightclub — sell on iTunes now? “I like the idea of trying to put it out on iTunes as an experiment in, can you make a short film yourself, put it out for sale? It’s an experiment to see if that is feasible.” But now, he said, “I don’t actually know if that makes any business sense at all, because once it’s out there, it’s out there.”
Jonze is still unsure what his post-“Where The Wild Things” project will be and says he’s taking a break.
I wonder if it would have really sold anyway, even if it wasn't leaked. How much would have iTunes charged? 99 cents? $1.99? I was curious to see it, but I don't know if I was willing to spend money to do so, especially knowing that someone, or some people would have stuck it up on YouTube or Vimeo or elsewhere anyway.