“Erics been working on it and Tims been working on it, and Jeff (Fowler). People continue to work on it and refine stuff, but its hard for me because Im in Sweden, so I cant really make many production meetings, but the attempt is to in January really go out and try and figure out a price that makes sense,” he said.
He also mused, “I dont know why you can spend $200 million on The incredibles but you cant spend $50 million on The Goon,or $130 million on Kung Fu Panda and $50 million on The Goon.”
Bringing up that comic adaptation reminded us that Fincher had been developing an adaptation of Charles Burns award-winning graphic novel Black Hole for a number of years. In fact we spoke to Burns himself about it three years ago, but apparently, Fincher has already moved past the original screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery:
“Its a really great script by Dante Harper, so the hope is that will win out,” he said. “Its so weird. Its so great, because it would be great to see. Its a very tough theres make-up FX and digital FX that are expensive and to do it right, you gotta do it just right, because it has to challenge your idea of the human body.”
