“The Goon” Teaser Poster

Reporting from San Diego Comic-Con, Ain’t It Cool News has posted photos of several collectibles and booths promoting various animated fare. They snapped this shot of a teaser poster for the upcoming CG-animated movie “The Goon“, based on the Dark Horse series created by Eric Powell.

David Fincher is producing the project right now, let’s hope he can be convinced to direct it.

Currently the film has no plot. Created by Eric Powell in 1999, the comic follows the adventures of a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for a feared mobster. The stories have a paranormal and comedic edge to them and concern ghosts, zombies, mad scientists and “skunk apes.” Dark Horse has been publishing the comic since 2003. Read the rest of this entry

Exclusive ‘The Fall’ Clip

From director Tarsem Singh and “presented” by David Fincher and Spike Jonze, is a throwback to classic, vintage Terry Gilliam with hints of Guillermo del Toro thrown in against a visual style that is all Tarsem.

In the film, set in 1920’s Los Angeles, a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (”Pushing Daisies’” Lee Pace) who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale.

Brad Pitt and Paramount Pictures Search for Lost City

Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought Lost City of Z, a David Grann manuscript based on a September 2005 article in the New Yorker. The trade says that Brad Pitt is producing the feature through his Plan B shingle. He also has the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading hitting theaters in September and David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which Par will open in December. Another film with him set as a producer is the Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana vehicle The Time Traveler’s Wife, which will debut in November.Plot Concept: Grann’s forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett’s path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Brad Pitt would play Fawcett.

David Fincher to Create New Animated Film ‘Heavy Metal’

Paramount Pictures will make a new animated film based on the ’70s sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, reports Variety. Director David Fincher is spearheading the project inspired by the magazine which spawned the original 1981 animated film and the 2000 sequel. Fincher will direct one of the segments; Kevin Eastman, the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” co-creator who is now owner and publisher of Heavy Metal, will direct another. Tim Miller, whose Blur Studios will handle the animation, is also directing a segment for what is being conceived as an R-rated, adult-themed feature. The studio will lock in the other directors shortly. Fincher, Eastman and Miller will produce.Heavy Metal will be stamped by the erotic and violent storylines and images that remain the trademark of a magazine that debuted in the U.S. in 1977. The magazine introduced the works of American artists and writers such as Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and H.R. Giger.

The film will consist of eight or nine individual animated segments, each of which will be directed by a different director.