Clay Katis’ and Fergal Reilly’s “The Offended Birds Film” was based mostly, fairly infamously, on a cell phone recreation, first launched by the Finnish firm Rovio Leisure in 2009. The premise of the sport was easy: a participant loaded a limbless chicken into a large slingshot and flung it at rickety stone castles populated by smug, inexperienced pigs. The extra a participant may knock over, the upper their rating. It was an ideally senseless recreation, excellent for losing time in airports. “Offended Birds” grew to become unexpectedly enormous, nevertheless, and it was solely a matter of time earlier than Hollywood got here knocking. The ensuing film starred Jason Sudeikis because the angriest of the birds. It is not a very good movie.
When Gosling was requested about making “The Good Guys 2,” he positioned its wrestle to get made straight on the shoulders of “The Offended Birds Film,” saying:
“A lot of a sequel, I feel, is determined by the opening weekend of a film, and we opened up towards ‘Offended Birds.’ So ‘Offended Birds’ simply, simply destroyed us. ‘Offended Birds’ obtained a sequel.”
Each movies opened on March 20, 2016. “The Good Guys” opened to $11 million. “The Offended Birds Film” opened simply north of $38 million. The writing was on the wall. And the wall was knocked over by a slingshotted chicken carcass. “Offended Birds” would in the end make over $350 million worldwide, making it a legit hit and stunning everybody. In 2019, “The Offended Birds Film 2” was launched, making one other $152 million.
Shane Black nonetheless liked “The Good Guys,” and even needed to develop the movie right into a TV sequence … which was the filmmaker’s authentic plan anyway. That fell by means of, too.
In additional methods than one, “Good Guys” followers actually, actually needed to flip the chicken.