With the Evan Goldberg and Jay Baruchel written, Michael Dowse (“Fubar,” “It’s All Gone Pete Tong”) directed hockey comedy “Goon” set to begin filming in a few weeks, the cast is beginning to solidify.
Alison Pill (“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”) and Marc-André Grondin (“C.R.A.Z.Y.”) have joined the previously announced Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel in the film, with roles yet to be specified. Talking about the project earlier this year, Baruchel said,”We like to think of [“Goon”] as a funnier ‘Raging Bull.’ It’s real mean, and it’s truthful, and it’s everything hockey is without any of the bullshit sports movie clichés, and it is dead funny. Lot of swears, that’s a hard R. It’s a very crass movie, there are something like 20 fights in it, but it’s the badass movie that hockey fans have been waiting to see their whole lives. It will be by far the best hockey movie since ‘Slapshot.’ Hockey fans have needed one for a long time, it’s a sport that movies never do well. Ours will be a fucking movement.”
Sounds pretty awesome.
If you’re wondering about Seann William Scott and that other hockey movie he was linked to, Kevin Smith’s “Hit Somebody,” it looks like that movie is a bit of a way off with the director revealing he won’t get to it until mid-2011 at the earliest, once he’s done with “Red State.”
Filming gets underway on Ocotber 18th in Winnipeg, Manitoba.