The Goon is a bi-monthly comic created by Eric Powell. It focuses on the main character The Goon pairing up with his wisecracking sidekick, Franky. The two do battle against many varities of supernatural creatures, zombies and vampires just to name a few. The comic is written and drawn with a dark comedic slant, winning many awards.
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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.
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