Confident female action movie directors with veddy dirty mouths rock. Lexi Alexander (above), the candid director behind Punisher: War Zone, has posted an update for the semi-quiet Marvel reboot on her tidy official site. She informs that the film was screened for studio brass this month, that it went reasonably well, and she seems cool with the flick now moving from its original September 12th release to December 5th.
Ms. Alexander on the “studio experience”…
“Well, thank God [the screening] went well and, although I’ll probably have to compromise on a few minor notes, it’s not nearly as bad as some of my filmmaker friends predicted it would be. I guess I got away with an actual okay studio experience (knocking on wood since it’s not quite over yet).”
And her NSFW thoughts on Frank Castle (played by Rome’s Ray Stevenson, above right with his stunt double) now raining/reigning blood during the jolly holidays; she includes a nice shout to the comic book/action fans rah-rahing for a hard R-rating (the kids are getting restless)…
“[The studio] also moved our release date to December 5th, which is, according to my reps, a much, much better date. I myself would have thought that people will think twice about going to see an extremely violent movie the closer it gets to Jesus’ B-day, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or whatever other holy holiday you’re celebrating. Well, the box office records prove different and instead, all you sick fucks get more blood thirsty that time of year. (And I say that with lovingly affection, cause I’m relying on all the sick fucks to show up).”
We haven’t seen much at all from the latest Punisher, but I really like Alexander’s attitude thus far. She just kinda gives ‘r and if I had to choose, after being strapped to a lawn chair, between watching Punisher: War Zone or the similar Max Payne (which is rumored to be going PG-13: Rockstar Games, wassup with that?) 100 times in a row, I’d choose the former off loony intuition. Crush much?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I love the smell of straight-to-dvd style films in the morning.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Tell her this movie total domestic boxoffice will be that of Max Payne’s opening weekend.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
@ Jojo
No.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I think Lexi is a good director but I don’t know if this is the way to go, career wise..
April 8th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Stevenson looks like a crazed Clooney in that photo.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:16 am
I remember watching AVP-R on December last year & the studio did not release it straight to DVD even though the movie sucks. I’m just saying that hopefully Punisher will be good for a cinema release & if it’s bad, please release it to DVD instead.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:05 am
If not for that strange grin I could have seen the actor as The Punisher since the other promo pics the studio had released earlier in the year don’t quite show a great all a$$-kicking Punisher. I suppose I’ll just have to wait to see another photo. Though I must admit, he does have the hair style and body type of the Romita drawn Punisher which was also my favorite.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I’ll probably see this just to support Titus Pullo.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I have a feeling that this movie won’t be as good as the one starring Thomas Jane. That Punisher movie showed inside the mind of Frank Castile. It was important to see what he went through, looking through his eyes and walking in his shoes. If you don’t have that, then you just have a violent movie with a lot of blood and gore. Please bring back Thomas Jane in the Punisher 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Don’t care at all about seeing this movie. The Punisher hasn’t been made into a decent movie yet, and here we are on the 3rd attempt and I have to ask myself why should I care now?
April 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I liked the 2004 Punisher movie, but felt it could of had more. There was supose to be a great car chase that would rival the Bullitt chase, but that never happened. I hope this one has a little more gritty feel to it and more action. I have the Roadrunner movie car from the 2004 film and would love to see it or a car like it in the new film. The last one ended with Frank standing on a bridge next to the roadrunner he took from the villian after his GTO was trashed.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I bet her gash is quite large.