"Ready to polish." - February 2006
"I'm fine-tuning the script." - August 2006
"The movie that I really want to make." - February 2007
"I can finally finish polishing." - February 2007
"I'm very close to finishing the rewrite." - March 2007
"I'm doing a rewrite, a draft I feel will be ready to give to the studio." - April 2007
"Hopefully within the year I'll be doing something other than turning in drafts." - June 2007
"I am still rewriting it. It is however starting to look extremely good." - July 2007
"I'm rewriting it. Rather more often than I'd hoped." - August 2007
"I'm doing rewrites." - October 2007
"I'm still trying to get Goners off the ground." - October 2007
"It's not going as quickly as I hoped." - October 2007
"Nothing's happening with it right now. It's not good news." - October 2007
"Not incredibly well-received." - October 2007
"(low quietly-distressed moan)" - December 2007
"[It's] gotten backburnered. I still have hope for it, though." - July 2008
 

What is Goners?

Joss Whedon has called Goners a supernatural thriller, a kind of horror film, and a young woman's journey. "It's an antidote to the horror movie with the expendable human beings in it," he once said. "Because I don't believe any human beings are."

Written after he finished filming Serenity, the script spent a number of years at Universal Pictures in rewrites only to be end up on the back burner by the middle of 2008, not long after Mary Parent (the executive interested in the script, as she had been in Serenity) left the studio for a position at MGM.

In a September 2009 interview with SCI FI Wire, Whedon responded to a question about the status of the script with a simple request: "Universal, release Goners into the wild so it can be free again."

How do we free it?

Joss has spoken up, if briefly. In the end, all the fandom can do is the same. Below are links to contact Universal Pictures via their website and their Twitter account, with sample messages to use, customize, or replace with your own.

Universal Pictures Contact Form

In a recent interview, Joss Whedon asked Universal to "release Goners into the wild so it can be free again".

Since several years of rewrites led only to the project being put on the back burner, I respectfully urge you to do as he asks, so that the film can move forward.

As part of his fan base, I defer to whatever his wishes might be on just how that should happen. My own wish simply is to express my support for his request.

Please free Goners.

Universal Pictures Twitter Account

Dear @UniversalPics: Please release Joss Whedon's Goners into the wild so it can be free again. http://www.freegoners.com/ #freegoners

Whichever method you use, please remember to be respectful and courteous. After all, we are asking them to do something they are under no obligation to do, and we are taking up some of their time to do so.

Now go forth, and free Goners.

Universal, release Goners into the wild
so it can be free again.
- Joss Whedon, 14 September 2009

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