The Onion Overview and Review

In 2003, New Regency Productions and Fox Searchlights pictures were on board to produce and release a movie written by The Onion Staff. Tentatively titled The Untitled Onion Movie, it was to be directed by music video director Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire and written by then Onion editor Robert Siegel and writer Todd Hanson with the rest of the Onion staff. After delays and previews to test audiences, the film was shelved and eventually dropped by Fox. New Regency Productions continued on with project.

In a March 15, 2007 interview, Scott said that the Onion movie was at a "dead standstill". Within two weeks, the listing for The Untitled Onion Movie  had disappeared. President at the time, Sean Mills, indicated the onion was no longer associated with the film project. In August 2007, the IMDb listing was restored.

In November 2007, then-President Sean Mills told  that the movie was a dead project. Although Fox Searchlight had an option to release it on DVD, there was no immediate announcement of plans to do so. Eventually, the trailer appeared on the DVD for The Darjeeling Limited. 

The Onion Movie is a comedy film written by The Onion writters Robert D. Siegel and Todd Hanson along with the Chicago-based writting staff of the paper. It was filmed in 2003 and realeased on June 3, 2008 .