im live close where the movie is being filmed as well. they r filming downtown and im about 10 or 15 mins from there. also next month their r going to film at my college's golf course🙂 i actually got to meet rebecca romijn-stamos! she was really sweet and i got her to sign my mag with her as mystique on the front. i put a pic of it in the xmen discussion. sorry for those of u who have already read about this but i just think its so cool!
they wouldnt cameo Fury yet coz he'll have his own film or be in the ultimates(ultimate avengers) and they invented Fury in the ultimate universe to look like Sam L Jackson and even mention in a comic that if a movie was made of him, Sam L J should play him. It was tailor made for him. Punisher rocks. No super hero is like him. He doesnt want revenge, he just wants to give every crook mother-f*cker what they deserve. 'If you think payback is a mother****er, you havent met Frank'.-Punisher Born
Originally posted by FrothByte
i was kinda hoping they would get a bigger more muscular actor to play the punisher. not to mention a better looking costume
I know what you mean but this guy looks quite big, maybe not frank Castle big(6' 200lbs) but still pretty big. It looks like they've based it in Tampa which I don't like. the punisher is a New Yorker. They've also made him an ex FBI agent and he's really an ex-soldier of Vietnam years. I understand that it was too long ago for him to be of young enough age now, but the point is that he was a soldier and assassin, hence his excellent skill with weapons, ability to make his own guns etc.
In every medium, they change his background. Ex-soldier, ex-cop, ex-fed. Feh. Soldier is not only true to the story, but the most logical in leading up to the M.O. of the Punisher.
FBI? What was he, a special agent like Fox Mulder who carried one sidearm but mostly reached for his badge out in the field, or a desk jockey whose weapons expertise was more in the direction of budgets and serial numbers? I'm not trying to disparage the FBI here. If 7anything I'm stating that a soldier is far more likely to be a nut-case gun freak than a fed.
This is going to be a sub-standard movie, but hopefully it will be oodles better than that piece of trash in which Dolph Lundgren had to have bad-ass stubble smeared on his stony face during his make-up hour.
I suppose with a two-dimensional character like Frank Castle, you can't really make a great movie about him. You've got moping and you've got killing. There's not much else to him. The best way for the Punisher to be seen is with other Marvel characters, in my opinion. I like superheroes, not psycho-chickens with unlimited arsenals.
Because no one from other Marvel franchises will be in this picture, I don't really care one way or another about them setting it in Tampa. I'm a little sick of looking at each Marvel movie and seeing a completely different New York and trying to pretend that they all live in the same universe. Blade's New York looks like Los Angeles. X-Men's New York looks like Canada. Spider-Man's New York looks like Los Angeles with bits of New York thrown in. Daredevil's New York looks like Los Angeles made up to look like Gotham City. Oh, the madness! Let's run away to Florida to escape the madness!