[Whedonesque] Joss talks to Empire about Goners.

[David]

"Anything that's uplifting and sexy I feel is a good thing".

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[goldenboy]

OK, I'm a little slow. Just discovered this Goners site (http://gonersmovie.com/). Hopefully, we'll start getting some real info before too long. Wasn't sure if this has been posted or not...

Goners is a film that brewed in me for a few years, and then after I finished filming Serenity, I just up and wrote it, because I've been waiting to for so long. It's a supernatural thriller.

There's not much I'm gonna say about it, because I have no idea when it'll happen, and every piece of information will get chewed over so thoroughly that I'm afraid if I talk about it at all, by the time the movie actually comes out people will be tired of it.

It's about a girl named Mia - people know that - who sort of sees in a mystical way the underbelly of the city and of human society, and goes through a kind of extraordinary hell, and we all have a lot of fun in the process.

It's very much the kind of fiction that I tell. That is to say, I love this character and I've been seeing a lot of horror movies that are torture-porn, where kids we don't care about are mutilated for hours, and I just cannot abide them.

This is much more a story about -- literally about human connection and whether or not it's possible.

But it's told on a very mystical scale and, in a way like everything I've tried to do including Buffy, it's an antidote to that very kind of film, the horror movie with the expendable human beings in it. Because I don't believe any human beings are.

[Black Eye Guy]

I would like to see this made, I'm not a fan of the Horrors that are out now. they all suck, they are, as he said, just people dieing in cool ways, but thats not scarey! and come on you could totally out the first half of The Grudge with the second half of The return and no one would notice!

I can't think of the last time a film actually scared me.