Solomon Kane

At long last one of my favorite Robert E. Howard characters will have his own movie, view the trailer here. The film, directed and written by Michael J. Bassett (with help from Howard of course) couldn't get any funding anywhere, dunno why, perhaps the Puritan (omg did he say Puritan?) nature of the Kane character scared off all of the big production studios. So Bassett shot this whole thing on a skeletal budget and mostly out of his own pocket from what I understand, remember that as you watch the trailer. Official release for the US is September 24, 2009 at the Austin Fantastic Fest. As far as I know there isn't going to be a theatrical release, so this means straight to DVD. Damn shame, but this movie should be fun!

Update - 2023 - 14 years later... yeah, the discipline thing is weak with me. I bought this movie on DVD. It's dark, moody, sometimes horrific in nature, but worth the watch. I think Bassett was in the process of making a great film, and then realized, "If I keep going at this pace, we will have a 6 hour movie," so about 2/3 of the way through things speed up like he's trying to cram the climax and resolution into an acceptable timeframe. Still, worth the watch, even more so if you like this character... or James Purefoy as an actor.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Release Your Mind... By Reading.

Image
 One of the things I run into a lot these days is, people don't read. I am not talking about the quick snippet on the great google machine, or the next greatest post from your favorite influencer, I am talking about literature. With regularity students in my courses, when asked what was the last book they read, will say, "..uh, I don't read." Actually, the response usually is, "you mean books? No." It breaks my heart.  Reading is one of the greatest remedies to the stresses of the world. I often have this conversation when students are suffering from artist's block. I tell them they need to step back and read. The look I usually get is like I have just fed them some camphor oil mixed with ipecac... yes, I wrote that. But it's so true. We need to let our minds relax and begin to paint their own pictures. Hard to do that when we are bombarded with images from the google machine all day. Sitting down with a good book allows your mind to disconnect from
Read more

!Some Posts With Artwork!

Image
Here we go, I finally post some work. Thanks to a whole bunch of people who have helped get me back in the saddle. I am working on getting a comfort level with my new tablet here, for some darned reason Wacom does not have a compatible driver with my old intuos tablet which saddens me greatly. These are sketches for the main character of a story I have been writing about the Templars.
Read more