{"id":22723,"date":"2012-10-14T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-their-kickstarter-page-the-goon-team-joke-that\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T16:11:05","slug":"on-their-kickstarter-page-the-goon-team-joke-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-their-kickstarter-page-the-goon-team-joke-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On their Kickstarter page, the Goon team joke that they want to make an adaptation that\u2019s \u201cLOUD, VIOLENT, and OFFENSIVE TO YOUR GRANDMA,\u201d in the spirit of the paranormal comics\u2014but that\u2019s also the problem they face in funding the film. Sure, they have an Oscar-nominated actor on board in Paul Giamatti, but they say that the biggest problem they face is selling an animated film with a PG-13 rating. Hollywood decision-makers will inevitably look at past projects that have attempted the same and disappointed at the box office\u2014say Bebe\u2019s Kids, Cool World, or Titan A.E.\u2014and worry that any new mature animated film will do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2012\/10\/12\/david_fincher_turns_to_kickstarter_to_sell_animated_comic_book_adaptation.html\">David Fincher turns to Kickstarter to sell animated comic book adaptation \u2018The Goon.\u2019<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On their Kickstarter page, the Goon team joke that they want to make an adaptation that\u2019s \u201cLOUD, VIOLENT, and OFFENSIVE TO YOUR GRANDMA,\u201d in the spirit of the paranormal comics\u2014but that\u2019s also the problem they face in funding the film. Sure, they have an Oscar-nominated actor on board in Paul Giamatti, but they say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}