MShipley88 wrote:Of course, the big question is, who will be Kane? Truth is, I don't know yet. The casting is so vital that I don't want to rush this.
MShipley88 wrote:Dude....you didn't like Arnold as Conan? I thought he was perfect....and Arnold pretty much matches the description of Conan from Howard's own work.
bombadil wrote:...There was a pile of heads stacked up around me at the end of every day. Very cold work. No gloves, blowing snow, bloody knife handle slippery as hell...
Xaxaxe wrote:Couldn't stand him. On a list of 50 actors I would have chosen to play Conan, I rank Arnold about 71st.The rest of your post is spot-on, though. If "they" get a hold of Solomon Kane, it will be Nicolas Cage as Kane, David Arquette as his loopy sidekick, and Jessica Alba as Princess Sweetbreasts. The plot will involve Kane bringing a very generic brand of Christianity to a remote part of Africa, while saving Pricess Sweetbreasts from a band of pagan lesbians at the same time. It will all be very politically correct, though."They" suck.
Kingofpain89 wrote:Clive Owen
Xaxaxe wrote:I actually watched Inside Man last night, and I gotta tell you ... I think Clive Owen would make an excellent Kane.One important note, though: no stubble! Clive is well-known for his perpetual stubble, and that just won't cut it as SK. Other than that, I'd green-light him in a second ... he's got a certain air of gravity about him that would be perfect for Kane.
Kingofpain89 wrote:I've never read a Solomon Kane story so I dont know the first thing about the character. But I'll bet a beat up B2 that the character will be portrayed by one of the following actors:Jason StathamClive OwenHugh JackmanColin FarrellChristian BaleIf they want to do it right though, it will be a complete unknown like Brandon Routh in Superman Returns. But you know how stupid Hollywood is. We'll probably get Keanu Reeves.
MShipley88 wrote:Oh geez!I forgot to warn the producer about the other certain death plot device:The church-leader-who-is-actually-the-badguy plotline. This guy is first cousin to the other incredibly tired character, CIA-guy-who-is-actually-the-badguy.Oh no! IT'S ALL A SETUP! How could we not have predicted this utterly predictable plot twist? What we'll get is a "thriller" with a mystery that is about as hard to solve as a Scooby Doo episode.God, how little they think of us! And....another thought about Kane.....The Solomon Kane stories have strong elements of horror. We should be frightened by a Solomon Kane movie.Four things to remember when writing a horror movie plot:1) Anything meant to frighten a teenage girl does not qualify as frightening, no matter what they told in film college. Try your script out on males...preferably a five year-old and a forty year-old. If neither of them acts even vaguely frightened then your movie sucks. Start over.2) Zombies are the least frigtening thing in the world. They are not even sort of frightening...Army of Darkness was a comedy! If you think a dessicated corpse popping out of a closet is frightening then you should go back to filming infomercials because you are an idiot.3) Gore is not frightening. In fact, gore is yawn-inducing. It doesn't even scare elementary school children...except for the girls (see above). If you think Gore is frightening then you were probably the one idiot in the high school haunted house who really thought his hands were actually being dipped in intestines rather than cold spaghetti...because you are an idiot. 4) Angels and demons are not frightening. Even Arnold has made a movie where he kicked a demon's ass. Hell, even Eddy Murphy has made a movie where he out-witted a demon. Hell, even Keanu Reeves can defeat demons. HELL even BEN CROSS can beat a demon. Buffy must have slain, like, eight million of them. Absolutely no one is scared of demons...except the guys wearing suits in the front office...because they are idiots. Go read The Dunwich Horror and The Lurker in Darkness. THEN try writing a movie. Mark
MShipley88 wrote:Oh geez!I forgot to warn the producer about the other certain death plot device:The church-leader-who-is-actually-the-badguy plotline. This guy is first cousin to the other incredibly tired character, CIA-guy-who-is-actually-the-badguy.Oh no! IT'S ALL A SETUP! How could we not have predicted this utterly predictable plot twist?
MShipley88 wrote:For a discussion and resources on R.E. Howard's public domain status:http://www.robert-e-howard.org/AnotherThought4ws02.html