Friday, March 14, 2008
Goners goes Missing In Action
Well, those who have been very closely tracking Goners - a surprising amount of people, who I kinda now feel sorry for getting hyped up - will know we recently investigated ways to try to get Universal reinvested in the idea of this little motion picture I like to call 'Goners'. That being it's, you know, working title.
Many of the people who have been lurking around, following this little movie film, came up with great ideas - postcards which looked amazing, little ways of saying 'Hey! Please don't forget us, Uni'!
As part of the process of investigating this, I started hitting brick walls. It was hard to tell what was happening.
Now, it transpires Mary Parent has left Universal. Mary had been with Universal for a long time, and has been an incredibly successful person for them, developing a huge number of films at the highest level in the firm with Scott. She was the executive force behind Serenity, getting Universal on board with the project and putting it into development before Firefly was even available on DVD. If you want to thank anybody for Serenity, thank Mary. And Joss. And the cast. That film truly was a labour of love - Joss wrote it without negotiating a fee in advance, which is almost unheard of for a Hollywood action movie. Mary also lead Universal to purchase Goners. She was a self proclaimed "Whedon stalker". She saw Firefly, and said 'There's a movie'. She was correct.
Mary is heading to head up MGM. Without Mary at Universal, obviously it's possible they could drive ahead with Goners and a Serenity sequel - but it's kinda unlikely that will. Combined with this little TV show called Dollhouse, for the forceable future, I think Goners is kinda lost. In terms of Serenity on the big screen, painful as is it to say - it's... over.
Worst. Breakup. Ever.
When a story enters Joss Whedon's head, he's said before that it kinda rattles around in there, not leaving. I believe Joss not only has a story for Goners, but wants to make it. Mostly because I read him say that on my Mac. I believe my Mac - it has words in colour, so it must be true. Joss always said if he couldn't keep telling the Serenity story, he'd splash the details on another medium - the internet, comics. At the minute, he's talking 'bout doing a comic mini-series revealing Book's history, called 'A Shepherd's Tale'.
Maybe Goners will one day appear in some form? Until then, I pitty Joss' poor brain.
And Mary and everybody at Universal: thank you. For Serenity. Truly. It was never going to be closure enough for the loss of Firefly, but it sure was great to see those people on the big screen. Those characters live on, not just in Joss Whedon's brain box. And if MGM want to make original movies with a guy who loves cinema.... Don't call me, I'm an idiot: call Joss. He's in the phone book under 'Has vision, wants screen'. And likely 'Very tired'.
And if any of this isn't true, don't panic: it's not in colour.
-gossi
Monday, February 04, 2008
Quarter of a million, goners?
This is a website for Joss Whedon's project, Goners. This month, we topped 250,000 unique visitors. To put that into perspective, the Serenity Movie website had 70,000 members and used less bandwidth month to month - during the period it was a major motion picture on release worldwide by Big U.
I'm not kidding when I say this: there's interest. I'm sitting on it. And so are Universal.
There's a story that needs tellin'.
I'm not kidding when I say this: there's interest. I'm sitting on it. And so are Universal.
There's a story that needs tellin'.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Joss on Goners
" Goners has been very close to my heart for years. "
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Update from Joss Whedon about Goners
Goners is a film that brewed in me for a few years, and then after I finished filming Serenity, I just up and wrote it, because I've been waiting to for so long. It's a supernatural thriller.
There's not much I'm gonna say about it, because I have no idea when it'll happen, and every piece of information will get chewed over so thoroughly that I'm afraid if I talk about it at all, by the time the movie actually comes out people will be tired of it.
It's about a girl named Mia - people know that - who sort of sees in a mystical way the underbelly of the city and of human society, and goes through a kind of extraordinary hell, and we all have a lot of fun in the process.
It's very much the kind of fiction that I tell. That is to say, I love this character and I've been seeing a lot of horror movies that are torture-porn, where kids we don't care about are mutilated for hours, and I just cannot abide them.
This is much more a story about -- literally about human connection and whether or not it's possible.
But it's told on a very mystical scale and, in a way like everything I've tried to do including Buffy, it's an antidote to that very kind of film, the horror movie with the expendable human beings in it. Because I don't believe any human beings are.
Thanks to Fan Boy Radio.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
A girl called Mia
Do you see her?
Friday, September 23, 2005
Not a Goner..
Hello interweb.
Despite press coverage, the movie is actually called Goners. Plurals love you.
Despite press coverage, the movie is actually called Goners. Plurals love you.