Update on THE GOON Movie - Still Trying to Find Funding

The Goon creator Eric Powell recently sat down for an interview and gave a little update on what was going one with the big screen adaptation of his comic book property. He's been developing the project with director David Fincher, and over the last couple of years we've seen some teaser art and some concept footage for the film which looked great. Unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll see the movie get made anytime soon. They are still trying to find funding.

Here's an excerpt  of the interview from AICN,

BUG: Great, well can we talk a little bit about THE GOON movie? 

EP: Sure. 

BUG: Okay, so you are really heavily involved in all of that, is that correct? 

EP: Yeah, on the creative end. As far as the getting a studio and generating the money to produce the film I am out of that completely, because for one I shouldn’t be involved in that and two I don’t want to be involved in that. 

BUG: And so is this going to be an origin story? Not to reveal too much about it, but what can you tell us about it? 

EP: (laughs) I think we have to kind of…I’m trying to…what’s the best way to describe this story? It definitely has the vibe of THE GOON comics, I’ll say that. It’s kind of crazy. It’s kind of got a little bit of horror, what we are talking about how it kind of covers a gamut of emotions and yeah, it’s pretty nutty. 

BUG: So is it still in production? 

EP: Oh no, we are still trying to get the money and get a studio attached. It’s all in test phase right now. 

BUG: So it’s not going to be released later in the year? 

EP: No, there is no release date. You know, they are still talking to people and trying to get a studio attached. 

BUG: I just saw the clip that they were showing and it seemed really interesting. I just thought that it was still going on, but it’s still being worked on? 

EP: Yeah, yeah it’s not…they haven’t started actual production on the film. We’ve got tons of preproduction art. We’ve got a couple of little test animations like they have been showing and Blur has done a ton of work on this, but we haven’t started actually producing the thing, because they are still trying to get the money to put the whole thing together and get a studio attached and you know work out the deal and everything. 

I really hope this film will get the funding it needs because it really could be an awesome film. It's such a fun comic book with great characters, and I think it will translate well for the big screen, they way that they want to do it. 

The story follows the adventures of the Goon, a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for the feared mobster Labrazio. The Goon (and his sidekick Franky) often get tied up in other machinations, often in relation to the evil zombie gangs under the command of the Nameless Zombie Priest.

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