'Durant's Never Closes' kicks off Kickstarter campaign

Running Wild Films and 5J Media, the Arizona companies making a film about Jack Durant, the founder of one of Phoenix's best-known steak houses, have created a Kickstarter campaign.

There's also a teaser trailer, which you can see below.

The goal is $100,000, to be raised by Feb. 4, so that "Durant's Never Closes," the film written, directed and produced by Travis Mills, can be completed.

"We need your help to make it happen," Mills says in the Kickstarter video, which you can watch here.

Tom Sizemore stars as Jack Durant, a colorful guy, to say the least. You can check out 15 fun facts about the place here.

Pam Grier, Michael Richards, Joe Don Baker and director Peter Bogdanovich, who also acts, have been cast. The film is set during a single day at the steak house, one of the true iconic Phoenix joints, where politicians, mobsters and civilians have met for drinks and animal protein for decades.

As with most Kickstarter campaigns, there are rewards for pledging. For $10,000 or more, you get an executive-producer credit. For $5,000 or more, you get dinner with Sizemore at Durant's (which, frankly, is the more interesting prize). Pledge $1,000 or more and you can be an extra in the film, $750 or more and you get dinner with Mills at Durant's, $500 or more and you get a set pass for a day, $200 or more and you get a signed screenplay and signed copy of "The Saga of Jack Durant" (by Mabel Leo) and Terry Earp's play "In My Humble Opinion," $100 or more you get a T-shirt and $50 or more you get a poster.

Mills also announces in the video that 10 percent of the proceeds from the campaign will go to the Arizona Humane Society.