Last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con during Collider’s “Directors on Directors” panel, hosted in Hall H and featuring some well-known Hollywood directors. Present at the panel was Academy Award-winner Andrew Stanton, who directed Pixar films such as WALL-E and Finding Nemo, in addition to episodes of Stranger Things and For All Mankind; stuntman turned director Chad Stahelski, who directed all four of the John Wick films; and Academy Award-nominee Tim Miller, who directed Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate. One of the biggest announcements to come out of the panel was that Miller is producing a feature film adaptation of The Goon on Netflix (after a successful collaboration on Love, Death & Robots, Miller made a point of optioning The Goon to the streamer).

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Love, Death & Robots filmmaker Patrick Osborne is directing the feature-length adaptation of the Dark Horse comic book series The Goon, written and drawn by Eric Powell (with color contributions by Dave Stewart and Robin Powell). The comic follows the supernatural adventures of a hulking orphan raised by his aunt who claims to be the primary enforcer of a feared mobster. During the SDCC 2022 panel, Miller said that the comic’s adaptation had been stuck in “development hell” for 12 years and that Powell was working hard on the script with Osborn.

In fact, the SDCC update is the first update on the film that fans have had in two years from Miller. In 2020, Miller and Jeff Fowler (Sonic the Hedgehog) released a statement and some first-look storyboards through Miller’s Blur Studios. The statement read:

Miller Has Not Directed Since 2019

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Before Tim Miller’s directing career, he was a creative supervisor on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, as well as working as a designer on title sequences for films like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Thor: The Dark World. The latter title sequence was completed in 12 weeks and included 75 shots.

Eric is, at this very moment, working on script revisions and things are still moving forward,” Blur wrote in the update. “It’s true… we’ve had a few setbacks – like Disney buying Fox and of course there’s no fucking way Disney would make a Goon film – but we have and will continue to keep pushing past this shit until it’s done. Adult animation gets hotter every day, and we’re very actively stoking that fire with our shows like Love, Death & Robots. And it’s working – believe me, the difference between the excitement we hear pitching Goon now and the fear we heard when we began development (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) is huge. Fewer doors are closed, and more minds are open.

Miller made his directorial debut with Deadpool in 2016. He was asked to come back for Deadpool 2; however, he left the film due to creative differences with Mr. Pool himself, Ryan Reynolds. In 2017, it was first rumored that he was in talks with James Cameron to work on and possibly direct a new Terminator film. Although he did get the project, Miller has not directed a film since 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, turning his sights to producing instead.