News: What the Fear
Lionsgate to Attempt a Good ?Punisher?
From Variety
Ray Stevenson, or Titus Pullo for all you Rome lovers, is set to star in and jumpstart a revitalization of The Punisher. Lionsgate aims to start a revamp of the franchise in October 2008, with Lexi Alexander directing the film. They?re shooting for an ?R? rating, with a script written by Nick Santora, Kurt Sutter, Matt Holloway and Art Marcum.
Now this is the third time that the Punisher will make his way onto the big screen, and I have to ask?why has it been so hard to make a good Punisher movie? It?s a guy, with guns, who?s very angry with very bad people. Doesn?t that write itself? Or, even better, haven?t hundreds of stories already been written about it, say, in the comic series?
