Joss won't be making 'Wonder Woman'
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UPDATED: Monday, February 19, 2007 07:53
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Originally posted by dqbaby76:
i know this is a stupid question, but what is this "GONERS" project?
Not a stupid question.
http://gonersmovie.com
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Goners is a supernatural thriller movie from Joss Whedon (Serenity) under development by Universal Pictures.
which has a fan community http://fans.gonersmovie.com/
and this blog area
http://blog.gonersmovie.com/
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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.
// posted by Goners @ 5:44 PM
Goners Internet movie database page
http://imdb.com/ search Goners not listed under Popular Results It is listed right now under Other Results.
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Originally posted by derangedmilk:Quote:
Originally posted by charliethebloody:
I'd kind of given up on a sequel anyway and I agree with the people who say this makes it less likely.
Hmph. So much for Browncoat optimism...
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optimisms overated, I don't have the pep to keep it up for years on end
but to answer the person who wondered if the boards would empty when the hope went away, I don't think so, I know I'd keep coming back cos I've made friends (and enemies) and talk about other things than serenifly, the communities have grown beyond whether or not we get a sequel or whatever...
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"I'm an artist, with an e and a beret."
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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
The spell worked ! Finally!!!!
Don't make me hurt you.
Cause I will!
Oh yes...I'll...I'll...I'll...flood your inbox with private messages...yeah, that's what I'll do.
*has been a WW fan since toddlerhood*
Ooooh, baby! Hurt me! Hurt me!
Just to clarify, not so much a strike AGAINST WW, but just hoping Joss gets all bored and restless that he turns his creative powers toward making Serenity 2: The Companions Strike Back!
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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The dismissal of Wonder Woman opens up creative space for his other projects. Still the question remains, will his other projects be accepted by the movie industry?
A Serenity sequel will have a greater chance of being accepted than Wonderwoman or his other projects for that matter. Simply because nobody has ever seen Wonderwoman and nobody knows for sure if it's going to be successful. On the other hand Serenity has proven itself. So if I were a neutral Universal representative I would choose Serenity over anything else.
Don't worry guys! This brings us one step closer to Firefly :-)
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My take on the issue has to do with Wonder Woman being a jump for Joss toward mainstream success. With mainstream success, he could do just about anything, eventually, including possibly more Serenity sequels and/or a, dare I hope, BUFFY movie, etc.
I always felt that if anyone could get me to care about a superhero movie, it's Joss.
I also find it pretty ironic that a guy who used to be in demand to fix other people's shoddy scripts for movies that eventually became blockbusters(Speed, Twister, Toy Story, etc.) isn't being taken seriously at his first real attempt at his own.
Sorry for Joss (and the many who are losing out on his brilliance), hope it's a "yay" for us, though not sure if I believe it at this point.
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Forgive me if this was stated before and I missed it, but Alien IV was directed by someone else (as was the original BUFFY movie). Those directors had the freedom to do what they wanted with the script. Joss admits they were both bad, neither of which is entirely his fault.
As for the original BUFFY movie, director Fran Kuzui's vision was that it was "not a vampire movie, but a pop culture comedy about what people think about vampires."
Watch the series, which was finally done in Joss's original vision for the movie, or hell, the movie itself and ask yourself just what in the hell was she smoking when the movie was made?
Anyway, if you're going to find fault with him, be fair and do it with things he DID have total creative control over, like all three series and SERENITY.
Bottom line: They should have trusted him to know what he was doing, and they didn't and so it's they're own fault it's going to suck.
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I wish I knew what this means, but I don't.
I guess I wish for better things for Joss. There's no reason to believe, after all, that this is going to open a special door for Firefly.
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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After just seeing Superman II : The Donner Cut, I'm not surprised in the least about Joss being dumped from the movie. I would love to think that this means that Firefly/Serenity could get a chance, but he wasn't the only one we had to worry about. Many of the actors have current gigs.
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Poor Joss, I'm sure he could've made it work. It would have been nice to get a successful movie under his belt. I think it might be a little selfish to assume that he's going to jump right into BDM2. Let us all make a promise not to smother him with requests for the thing, right? Everyone promise now. Ya hear me?
No, I am not insane, I am crazy. Thank you for asking.
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A film named "Wonder Woman" weren't never gonna be a successful movie anyway regardless of who wrote, produced, directed or starred in it. It's loser sh*t from the get go. Can't imagine why Joss was involved with the project to begin with. Better off working on "Big Mama's House 4"
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