Caffeinated Clint
Sequel needs a new Frank Castle
Muscly? Don’t mind wearing shirts with Logo’s on them? Can hold your own in a brawl? Know how to drive a stick-shift?
Then Lionsgate may wanna hear from you. They’re now one star short of a “Punisher” sequel.
Thomas Jane tells Aint it Cool News that he has pulled out of the long-gestating sequel stating that, “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 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 – fuck 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.”
Jane doesn’t state why he’s pulled out of the sequel, but the site does throw some possibilities in the mix: For one, the script for the film is supposed to be a dog. Nobody (Walter Hill wanted to do it at one stage) wants to touch it. That’s part of the reason why it’s taken so long to get up. Jane as good as confirms that the script is shit by saying, “What I won’t do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don’t believe in.”.
If only all actors would pull out of shitty movies we might have a few less slapdash sequels in the theatres.
