Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Gooby

4/16/09 - Edward James Elliott told reporters that he's completed another genre project, the family fantasy Gooby.  About the film, he said recently, “It's a family picture. Robbie Coltrane is in it, and Eugene Levy and myself. It's about ... a family having lost their way, for lack of a better explanation. The communication between parents and children was confused. And so Gooby, this monster of the imagination, comes in, and he winds up helping everyone. It's a cool picture. You'd have to see it. It's not like anything I'd read before, and Wilson Coneybeare wrote, directed and produced this piece. That's his genre, children/family films, and he's really good at it. So I had a ball doing it.”  Elliot added about its release, “Yes, AMC has picked it up for a limited theatrical, and Harkins and Carmike Cinemas. It's going direct to the exhibitors, and they also got into the Toronto and Houston movie festivals, and they won a bunch of citation awards. Stuff is starting to happen.”

AlienAlmanac.com 2009