Johnny Mundo Reveals He Bet His House on Boone: The Bounty Hunter

Johnny Mundo was one of the guests on E&C’s Pod of Awesome this week and revealed that he re-mortgaged his house to fund the movie. When that was revealed, Edge was taken aback that he felt that strongly about the project and asked “Was it one of those things you felt strongly about from the get-go, or did it just get to the point where you thought ‘Well I’m this far, I have to see this through?'”. Mundo responded:

There was never really a time I felt I was going to scrap it, there was a couple of times where, before we started shooting… Once we started shooting it, it never crossed my mind that we would not finish shooting. We were past the point of no return so to speak. But when I was trying to raise money, there was a time where I thought maybe I should try to write another movie.

While Boone: The Bounty Hunter sounds like a weird comedy with action anyway, the other movie Mundo started on sounds like it could be even more crazy.

Maybe I’ll put this out at some point, the other movie was Ghost Puncher and we shot a simple trailer in 3D. Which is also kind of funny as Piper plays the mentor role in Ghost Puncher so we did this weird scene where he’s giving me advice about following the light to the other side and that movie was just about some fighter whose only power is that he can punch ghosts.

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Nobody wanted to fund Ghost Puncher either.

Now that’s the level of stupid I can get behind. Boone: The Bounty Hunter is available now on digital platforms like Amazon and Google Play. Or, as Mundo puts it, “All those gimmicks on your Comcast box”.