Even that isn't the strangest project Fincher's even been attached to. The director's something of a closet comic book fan, having previously circled attempts to bring Frank Miller and Geoff Barrow's insane (and insanely violent) action miniseries Hard Boiled to the big screen, along with a mooted resurrection of the cinematic spin-off of "mature" sequential series Heavy Metal. Nothing ever came of those, but the one comic book adaptation with David Fincher's name all over it that very nearly made it to becoming a reality was The Goon. And The Goon is one of the strangest comic books you are ever likely to read. Focussing on a former mob enforcer with a scarred face who lives in a small town and fights monsters with his diminutive Franky, The Goon features everything from zombies to homeless cannibals to French octopuses who pilot Zeppelins and call themselves the Communist Airborne Mollusk Militia. A CG animated film produced by Fincher entered pre-production, with Clancy Brown in line to voice The Goon and Paul Giamatti as Franky. After a quiet period the film launched a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012, and since then...nothing. So the project is almost certainly dead. With no Zombie Priest around to raise it.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
