You wouldn't quite call it a sleeper hit (it didn't even reach $10m at the box office), but there's been talk of a sequel to the hockey comedy Goon ever since its release back in 2011. It's been a while since we heard anything, but the film's star Seann William Scott has just revealed that Goon 2 is suddenly underway, with shooting set to start in a couple of months time.
"I’ve been fight-training for the past month," Scott told Reddit, "and next month in May I start working with an MMA fighter, and then some skating (obviously, a lot of skating). We start shooting Goon 2 in mid-June, and if everybody does their jobs and we execute the amazing script that Jay Baruchel and his co-writer wrote, the fucking movie will be wicked.”
That co-writer, if this is still the same set-up that Baruchel was talking about in 2012, is Jesse Chabot, who was associate producer last time. Baruchel's previous co-writer Evan Goldberg was then looking at a producing role, with Michael Dowse planning to return to the director's chair.
Where could a sequel go, given that (spoiler) Scott's character, the ultraviolent dim-bulb hockey enforcer Doug "The Thug" Glatt got the girl and reached the playoffs last time? The real Doug, Doug Smith, whose memoirs Goon was based on, continued to play for various minor league teams to varying levels of success, and away from the rink, also became a cop. So maybe there's something there.
Baruchel says: "Goon is pretty close to sacred for all of us involved, and we wouldn't be entertaining the idea of continuing the saga if we weren't all equally convinced that Doug, LaFlamme, Stevesy, the Russians, Rolie, Ogilvy, Belchy and Eva were only just getting started. We will give them and you guys the epic, violent, heartfelt awesomeness that is not just deserved but required. High. Land. Ers!"