Eric Powell gives an update on THE GOON adaptation

The Goon is a film that many comic fans are looking forward to, and from everything that I've seen it looks like it's gonna be great. They showed some test footage at Comic-Con this last year that seemed to get the crowed pumped up, the stuff they showed looked great! It's been awhile since we've got any kind of update on the film, but The Goon creator, Eric Powell, recently talked to MTV and gave us a little update on what was going with the film. 

According to Powell, the first draft of the The Goon script is finished and going through a few tweaks to get fine tuned. As of right now, animators at Blur Studios are working on some test footage, and he hopes that producer David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) will start pushing the project forward soon.

I think as soon as Fincher is finished working on the film he’s on now, they’re going to try and get this thing up and going. It’s in good shape. We’re slowly grinding forward, but all the blocks have to be in place first.

I fell into a perfect situation with guys who really get the comic. You have to change things to make it fit in a format like this — especially with 'The Goon,' because the comics were such self-contained stories and so episodic. You can’t do it like 'Sin City' and do a linear telling of the comic.

For those of you that are worried about any changes that will occur in the adaption process, you just have to expect that it's going to happen, but be comforted by the fact that Eric Powell is the guy writing the script for the film. He explains what to expect.

We had to adapt it for the film, but I wrote the script — so The Goon doesn’t fall from the sky in a meteor or have superpowers or anything like that. It is The Goon and it has the feel of the The Goon. The story had to change a little to get it to work in a film format, but the characters, the world, and the interaction between the characters are all the same.

Powell's extremely excited about the project and can't wait to be able to show some more stuff to the fans. He says that once everything is in place and the film is pretty much an 100% go, there will be a flood of new material released for all of us to see. 

It sounds like David Fincher is going to take a very active role in the creation of the film. There's still no word on if he'll direct it or not, but even if he doesn't he has final say in what goes on. 

Directing an animated film is a little different form directing a live-action film, but they’re still making those decisions. Fincher is heavily involved and he’s going to have final say over everything, so we will get his input — he won’t just be a figurehead.

Right now Fincher is hard at work directing his Facebook movie, but once he's done with that we'll have to see how he proceeds with this Goon film project.

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