This is perfect. Announce you are producing game and build a crappy prototype which is just a retheme of Night Rider. Take $500 down payments from 20 people (it's only 500, the rest is due when we ship your game). Get sued by whoever owns the film. Go out of business keeping the $9500 bucks ((500 * 20) - the 500 to build the proto). Wait 6 months. Sell the "one of a kind" prototype for $20,000 to a collector that isn't going to play it anyway, because it is a piece of pinball history. So I profit $29,500 for a weekend of work. THAT is a business plan!

Compliments like that will definitely get them on board. Every time someone insults my business choices, all I want to do is something for them.