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David Fincher Grabs 'The Goon'
In 1999, Eric Powell created the unusual underworld of
The Goon, which takes its name from the comic's title character, the
muscle for a big time mobster. Dark Horse has been publishing The Goon
and its unsavory paranormal universe full of the dead and the undead for the
last five years and now
David Fincher will turn The Goon into a
film.
Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 07:49PM
by
Colin Boyd
in Comic Book Movies, Animation, David Fincher
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6 Comments
Colin Boyd
in Comic Book Movies, Animation, David Fincher
|
6 Comments
Reader Comments (6)
Great news all around. For better or worse, I'm always interested in David Fincher's work. I got so worried about the man about six months before Zodiac came out that I ran a search on IMDB to see if I hadn't missed his death by accident. I mean, dude had not done anything in ages!
Made me wonder if he could get anything bankrolled anymore...
But Hollywood keeps giving Woody Allen and Terry Gilliam money, so why wouldn't they give a little sumpn' to a director who is going to do one of two things with the right project:
1. Mine his OCD for an Academy Award.
2. Mine his OCD for a trip to the insane asylum.
Either way, I want to be around for the ride when it happens.
Sadly, his OCD is well-documented on the Zodiac DVD. He made Jake Gyllenhaal toss a newspaper or something, and it took like 40 takes. Ridiculous. That's ultimately what hurt the movie. It was supposed to be released in October 2006, when it would've had a chance for some awards consideration, but it went so long and so far over budget, Paramount stripped down the marketing and kicked it out the door in March or April or whatever it was. What a waste.
Still, I've seen it four times now, and even though Zodiac was almost certainly not Arthur Leigh Allen if you bother to strip away all the circumstances linking the case against him, it's a damned entertaining yarn.
Yeah, I remember the Big Picture had Zodiac in its top ten last year: Bold move, but warranted.
Had it number one, in fact. More convinced of it every time I watch it.
Zodiac was a tremendous movie. I watched it with my mouth agape, unable to take my eyes off the screen. My wife slept through most of it. Fincher is scary good.
The amazing thing about it - and maybe I should just write a big appreciation blog for it like I did Touch of Evil a couple weeks ago - is how little of the film is shot on locations. Almost everything shot outside was digital. The big "helicopter shot" over the San Francisco Bay at the beginning: Completely computer generated. The blood? Post-production. Of course, the actual murder scenes at Lake Berryessa and Blue Rock Springs were the real locations, but there's digital work all through that thing. And you'd never notice it.