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Deadpool Success Might Help Push The Goon Movie Forward

 

The good news is that Director Tim Miller's vision for Deadpool raked in a great deal of money for the studio, and has put Miller on the most wanted list, reigniting interest in the project. Miller and Jeff Fowler are directing the animated project, with David Fincher on as producer. Miller spoke to Collider about the renewed interest his hit flick has brought to the property.

 

“If Deadpool shined any light in the direction of the studio, we wanna use some of that light to shine it on Goon. So we’ve been doing a lot of work lately, we did some voice-over last week.”

 

“I do think that there is a corollary. Deadpool proves it, in a big way, that there is a market for this stuff out there… Goon is very much an action—it’s got a lot of heart, it’s got a lot of comedy, it’s got a lot of similarities to what I think was successful in Deadpool, and so I think it’s not a stretch to compare those two things and say the world is a little more ready than they used to be for this kind of material. In the past, there’s reasons why The Goon wasn’t made, it’s because people were afraid of edgy animation. Now I think that Deadpool has proved that that audience is out there in a bigger way than some people thought.”

 

The Kickstarter money was used to produce an 85-minute animatic so they could show studios the entire film in their pitch. Now that interest has picked back up, they aren't wasting any of the opportunities.

 

“Before we did our Kickstarter, we did a whole round with the studios, so we went down, Jeff and me, sometimes Fincher, sometimes Josh Donnen, and we went to all the studios and did our pitch for The Goon. We had a really beautiful pitch, we had a test piece, we had our book, we had all this stuff and at that time it was a $50 million project and we couldn’t get anybody to bite. Everybody loved it, but nobody would do it. So we went back and reworked the price a little bit and decided we were gonna take it out again, and right before we did that this demand to do a Kickstarter came up and then we said, ‘Okay :censored: it, we’ll wait, we’ll do the Kickstarter, and then we can literally show executives the whole film. Here’s the film, you don’t have to listen to me tell you what it’s going to be, you can see what it’s going to be.’ And that’s what we did.”

 

“We haven’t taken it back out yet, but I can honestly say, without saying who, there has been a number of calls now—for years it didn’t happen—saying, ‘Hey we hear you have this Goon project. When can we see it? What can we see?’ Jeff and I re-recorded some V.O. for the animatic last week, we’re doing some more week after next with a very prominent movie star. We know we’ve got a really good shot here and we wanna put our best foot forward.”

 

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Tim Miller Rescues ‘The Goon’ from Development Hell

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For nearly a decade, comic book fans have been clamoring for an animated The Goon movie. Back in 2012, David Fincher was attached to direct, with animation helmed by Blur Studio and a budget partially raised by fans on Kickstarter. (However, rumors of a Goon movie began as early as 2008.) Well, another visual savant has stepped in to take Fincher’s place – Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool and co-founder of Blur Studio.

 

Since 1999, Eric Powell’s The Goon, published by Dark Horse Comics, has had a dedicated cult following. Powell gleefully fuses horror and crime comics with his brash, ultra-violent sensibility (think Chinatown with zombies). Although a fan favorite, the long-running series has struggled to make it to the big screen partly because R-rated animated features have always made studios squeamish. The success of 2016’s Sausage Party may have opened the door for more adult animation.

 

In a video interview with Collider, Miller describes The Goon film as “Army of Darkness meets Goodfellas.” Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown were originally cast, but it remains to be seen if they will ultimately return to the revived project.

With a -script penned by Powell, The Goon sounds like popcorn cinema at its finest. Miller promises more details soon.

 

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I was wondering what was holding this up.

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While talking about Dexter: New Blood with Collider, Brown was asked if he had heard any status updates on The Goon. Brown mentioned the trouble with getting the film off the ground over the years, saying there were times around the success of Deadpool where it looked like The Goon movie was finally moving forward. Brown also expressed confusion surrounding how the film can't get made with the likes of Fincher and Giamatti attached. Ultimately, Brown believes there may be some rights issues with the comics, though he still hopes to make the film, saying, "I'd love to do it." Check out Brown's full comments below:

 

"I haven't. There was some noise, I think it was after Guardians of the Galaxy did so well, or maybe it was after Deadpool did so well, that maybe that would ... I think it was Deadpool. And so maybe that would shake it loose for The Goon, but I haven't heard anything. And to me, it smells like there's legal rights being wrangled. Because I don't know why you wouldn't let Paul Giamatti and me and [David] Fincher and the rest of the guys loose on this thing. It just seems like a fun thing. And it's zombies. Zombies, for crying out loud. And it would be a blast. I'd love to do it. It would be a lot of fun. We just need somebody to pay for it, I think."

 

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