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3 August 2007 with No Comments
A new Rope of Silicon interview with Joss includes a couple of references to Goners.
First, regarding the point during which the Wonder Woman gig was falling apart:
I deliberately scheduled a Goners meeting right before talking to them because I knew what was coming. I came out of that Goners meeting buzzed and it was then I realized that in a year and a half no one had ever asked me what Wonder Woman was about.
And then this, in a digression about Neil Gaiman:
I think he and I suffer from the same thing, we’re not locked into a formula genre, we like to do everything all at once. That’s what‘s fun. But it also makes me unsellable. I’m having the same issue with Goners, people asking “Well, what category does this fall into?”
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30 July 2007 with No Comments
This weekend at Comic-Con, Joss gave a Goners update. He’s gotten some notes back on the script, and he indicated that the notes we right, so he’s continuing to do re-writes of some sort. He also reaffirmed that Goners continues to be the main thing on which he’s working.
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15 July 2007 with No Comments
At the end of last month, in reference to his forthcoming Comic-Con panel, Joss said: “Really lively would be announcing that I’m actually moving ahead on a greenlit filmed entertainment. Dontchya think? Pretty sure that’s not gonna happen by then.” That would appear to be consistent with his earlier expressed frustration.
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6 July 2007 with 1 Comment
In a video interview with MySpace Comic Books, Joss forgets to issue a spoiler warning before answering a question about Goners. Meanwhile, while some people are speculating that his panel at Comic-Con might include some news, his recent remarks suggest otherwise.
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28 June 2007 with No Comments
In an interview (mp3) with 95bFM, Joss had another set of comments regarding the status of Goners. To an extent, the key word appears to be “frustrated”.
It’s a supernatural thriller that I’m trying to get the studio to make. I’m rewriting it again. And it’s a slow process, and after working in TV for a while, slow processes are a little frustrating. I’m working on some other stuff, but it’s all too embyronic to talk about at this point. But hopefully within the year I’ll be doing something other than turning in drafts of scripts, which after 18 months of Wonder Woman is getting a little old.
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26 June 2007 with No Comments
In the hope and expectation that there might be an announcement regarding Goners in the near future, this site finally has been moved to a hosting provider. Should there be a light of greenishness for the film, traffic to this site likely will jump rather dramatically, and so the preparations for a thing now have been made.
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25 June 2007 with 1 Comment
So it’s been a few weeks since Joss said that in a “few weeks” he would find out if he’s be shooting Goners this year. My own entirely-unfounded semi-educated guess is that if there’s anything to announce, he’ll do it at Comic-Con.
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26 May 2007 with 3 Comments
There’s a report from Joss’ talk at Wesleyan this weekend which includes a Goners update: “[H]e did say that he submitted a full script and would find out in a few weeks if he will be shooting it this year”. About one month ago, Joss said that he was working on a draft he felt would be “ready to give to the studio”. Guess that happened. A second report adds that “he said there are two female leads” — presumably Mia and Violet.
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23 April 2007 with No Comments
There’s a new interview with Joss that includes a brief exchange about Goners.
And now you’re writing and directing a new movie called “Goners” for Universal, right? What’s that project?
“Goners” is a supernatural thriller I wrote after “Serenity” and is being produced by Mary Parent.
What’s the status of it?
I’m doing a rewrite [of the script], which for a long time eluded me mostly because I was working on “Wonder Woman,” but perhaps not coincidentally, as things began to go south with “Wonder Woman,” corners began to unfold and what I needed to do became very clear, so I’m working on that right now. [So I’m working] on a draft I feel will be ready to give to the studio for, hopefully, a light of greenishness.
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2 April 2007 with No Comments
So says Wizard Entertainment in its “fundamental ABCs of [Joss] Whedon’s career”, which says only that he “remains tight-lipped” about the “supernatural thriller”.
