{"id":3440,"date":"2012-01-27T00:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2012-01-27T00:31:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:31:22","slug":"elfquest-movie-dead-the-goon-dying-news-dark-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/elfquest-movie-dead-the-goon-dying-news-dark-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elfquest&#8221; Movie Dead, &#8220;The Goon&#8221; Dying? | News | Dark Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-gestating adaptation of the cult comic &#8220;Elfquest&#8221;, which has been in development at Warners for four years, looks to have been dumped.<\/p>\n<p>Rawson Marshall Thurber was previously attached to direct the story of a tribe of elves trying to find others of their kind while avoiding humans and trolls. Comic co-creator Wendy Pini gave the following statement on the titles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elfquest\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After close to four years of suspense &#8211; and longer than four years of your much-appreciated interest and support &#8211; the word has come down from Warner Bros. And the word is &#8220;no.&#8221; Their simple explanation is that they dont want to compete with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This was a possibility, among several, that we were prepared for. It is a relief, at last, to know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile another project that began life back in 2008, a CG animated adaptation of Eric Powells &#8220;The Goon&#8221; comic which David Fincher optioned, looks like it might have died on the vine.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown voiced the characters of Franky and The Goon in a test footage reel in 2010. IFC spoke with Giamatti at Sundance this week and asked him how the film was progressing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no idea what the hell happened. I asked and no one knows. I guess they just ran out of money&#8221; he says. This matches comments from Fincher last year who suggested getting a project like this financed was extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/news\/22885\/-elfquest-movie-dead-the-goon-dying\">&#8220;Elfquest&#8221; Movie Dead, &#8220;The Goon&#8221; Dying? | News | Dark Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-gestating adaptation of the cult comic &#8220;Elfquest&#8221;, which has been in development at Warners for four years, looks to have been dumped. Rawson Marshall Thurber was previously attached to direct the story of a tribe of elves trying to find others of their kind while avoiding humans and trolls. Comic co-creator Wendy Pini gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-Tu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5669,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/elfquest-comics-getting-adapted\/","url_meta":{"origin":3440,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;ElfQuest&#8221; Comics Getting Adapted","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"November 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Producers Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes have scored the film rights to Wendy and Richard Pini's late 70's comic book series \"ElfQuest\" for a planned feature film adaptation. 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