We recently covered a fan project that looked into creating an unofficial live-action web series for Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy VII. The project went live on Kickstarter and seemed to be doing farely well – till Square Enix got a whiff of things and threatened the project with a DMCA notice (which you can view here) since the characters and name belong to Square Enix.

The project is now unavailable for funding on Kickstarter until the intellectual dispute has been resolved. The production team meanwhile, posted the following on Facebook: “You will have noticed that the Square Enix legal team have taken an interest in our project. We’re in the process of opening up discussions with the team regarding the ongoing status of our project and hopefully the continuation of our Kickstarter campaign. We’ll keep you up to date on any developments.”

Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.

The funding will be for the first season which consists of 5-6 episodes of 15 minutes each. The crew is reportedly made of more than a hundred film industry professionals, with writer Xander Williams (who created the popular FFVII fan-fiction novel “The Jenova Project”) penning the screenplay.

With a target goal of $400,000 the project currently has $5,964 pledged by 165 backers with 29 days still to go. The funding will go into studio time, equipment and production, and paying cast and crew members. Check out the concept video below to see what can be expected in terms of tone, presentation and snippets of some of the characters.