David Fincher’s The Goon Gets a Kickstarter Campaign

Posted by on October 12th, 2012   Filed under: Animation, Books/Comics, Internet
Source: Kickstarter

Now that Charlie Kaufman’s animated project Anomalisa was able to drum up more than twice its funding goal via Kickstarter last month, another Hollywood heavy hitter is turning to crowd funding to get his own ambitious animated film off the ground. David Fincher has been working with the folks at Blur Studio since 2009 to try and create a CG animated adaptation of Eric Powell’s The Goon. Despite the fact that they showed off a proof of concept trailer at Comic Con a few years ago, the movie was never actually able to secure enough financial backing to enter production.

Now they are asking the fans themselves to pony up $400,000 to make this thing a reality. Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti are already on board to voice The Goon and Franky and the script has been written by Eric Powell himself. $400,000 will not fund the whole movie, but it will allow them to make a feature-length story reel, which can then be shopped around Hollywood again. Even if you’re not familiar with the comic, the idea of making a CG animated movie for adults seems like it might be something worth supporting. Check out the pitch video after the jump and visit the Kickstarter page for more info.



  • Bas

    That’s using kickstarter as a marketing tool. Don’t tell me that Fincher can’t get this made without crowdfunding. It certainly looks good enough to stand on its own feet.

  • Jonny Ashley

    I want to give my money to this

  • Rusty

    I really have no problem with famous people using Kickstarter. In fact I encourage it, anything that pulls power away from idiot executives at most major studios (Film/Music/TV) is a good thing in my book. Also it gives the creators the opportunity to retain the rights of the product and reap the potential rewards themselves instead of the studios.

  • rjdelight

    So there asking for donations in the hopes that a studio will look at this reel and give them more money? If nobody wanted it before, how is making this going to change anything? You’d think Fincher could pony up 400K.

  • swarez

    @BAS. If he would be able to get it off the ground without crowd funding he would have done so in 2009.
    The problem is that this concept isn’t exactly commercial and CGI movies cost a ton of money to make. But I’m not really sure how a story-reel is going to change the minds of studio heads.
    He should probably look over seas for partners, Europe and Asia are more willing to spend money on a property like this.