Sep 25 2007 Three to 'Punish' Their Careers
Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, and Wayne Knight are set to join Punisher: War Zone, the new comic book movie that will ignore the previous Punisher movie(s) in the hopes of making the final, definitive take on a guy with a lot of guns. West will take on the role of Jigsaw, Punisher's enemy with a face torn apart and sloppily reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle, drawing an all-too-obvious parallel with the script. Hutchinson is taking on the role of Looney Bin Jim, another villain that will surely add to the story, not muck it up with too many villains ala every previous superhero franchise. Knight is playing Microchip, Punisher's armorer and confidant, despite the name's implication that he's a sidekick dog in a cartoon about getting sucked into a computer program. I feel bad for all of them.
Trio paged for ‘Punisher’ roles [Hollywood Reporter]
Jul 23 2007 Pulow to Play Punisher, Punisher Greenlighters Go Unpunished
A listful Stevenson had hoped to one day be famous enough for this to be considered career suicide
The internets are now reporting that Thomas Jane's replacement in Punisher 2 will be Ray Stevenson, better known as Titus Pulow from Rome. I have to admit, this is probably the best casting since Forrest Whitaker as Idi Amin or Morgan Freeman as Mandela. Titus Pulow was the only character on Rome arguably more gangsta than Marc Antony.
Still, Punisher 2? Really? Couldn't we just have a Rome movie instead? They've already made two horrible Punisher movies, they shouldn't get another chance. Even Taco Bell fires you after you make your second or third Puberrito (and no, Mrs. Lindeleaf, I'm not sorry. Now who's 'acting inappropriate'? Bitch.).
Jun 13 2007 John Dahl Out of Punisher 2
Okay, now in this "scene", I'm going to beat a hooker to death with a stick. Ready on set?
Director John Dahl has backed out of Punisher 2. Not that I really care, there's no way in hell I'm seeing the sequel to a shitty movie that was a remake of another shitty movie.
"I love the idea of a kickass vigilante that's got a really black sense of humor, that can throw three people into a trashcan, light them on fire and walk away while they're screaming. That just sounded funny to me but I wasn't sure that the script could really get there, that would have the sense of humor."
Wow, dude sounds pretty harsh. I like him already. I'm glad he's off the movie, because saying things like that might actually tempt me to see it.
May 16 2007 Thomas Jane Drops Out of Punisher 2, Touch With Reality
I just love my new triceps. Thanks, meth!
Thomas Jane is pulling out of Punisher 2. In a barely coherent strongly worded letter to AICN, he writes,
"I’m writing to tell you that I regretfully and painfully had to pull out of P2. I can’t tell you how completely broken up I am about it. After busting my ass at the gym four days a week for almost two years, watching every character driven action pic that any fan would ask me to watch while I was standing in line buying egg whites and Tuna fish (Leon the Professional, Oldboy, The Seven-Ups (GREAT flick), Point Blank, Escape from NY, The Driver, Magnum Force, The Mechanic, The Great Silence, Sexy Beast, Nighthawks, Cry Vengeance (check it out), Road Warrior, Man on Fire, Outlaw Josey Wales, Rocky (think about it), Serpico, etc etc etc.) after countless Saturday nights making notes and drinking soda water and munching on seaweed sticks while my daughter slept on my lap to the sound of automatic gunfire, (now she can’t sleep without it. I had to make a tape of automatic gunfire to play in her room at night) after hauling myself to any ‘Guns! Knifes! Ammo!’ show in any small town that I found myself in shooting Killshot or The Mist or Mutant Chronicles, after torn ligaments, screwed up rotator cuffs, thousands of $$$ on ridiculously huge vitamins, overly long conversations with frighteningly tall men about The Fastest Way To Kill Someone With Your Bare Hands, and after a dude refused to sell me a Fatburger at 2am on Santa Monica Blvd, I am, sadly – no, make that heartbrokenly – f*** it - just rip out the heart and stomp it into the pavement a couple of times – pulling out. Punisher fans are already fighting an uphill battle as it is. And I’ve always felt a responsibility to fight that fight for them and with them so that Frank Castle gets the treatment he deserves."
To me, the two most shocking things about this story are: A. They were making a Punisher sequel? Why why why? and B. Wow, Thomas Jane must do a lot of cocaine.
Seriously, buddy, after a ramble like that I think it's clear you need to switch to Adderall.
On the bright side, perhaps they can get Dolph Lundgren back! I heard he's not doing anything. From his grandma. With whom he now lives.
