Recent reports had 'You Kill Me' director John Dahl in talks to helm the 'The Punisher 2'. Dahl now says that he was interested in the movie, but definitely is not doing it.
Says Dahl:
Yeah, I met on that because I liked the idea of a brutal action movie. You can't really do a vigilante movie any more but here's this guy giving you the perfect opportunity to actually do a vigilante movie.
I loved the idea of some guy who can throw four people into a dumpster and throw a can of gasoline in and toss a lighter in and walk away. And you'd just hear the people screaming in the background.
If you could just get the humor of the comic book. He's got this deadpan delivery. It's action and black humor and I would have totally been there, but I just started realizing that the franchise has too much baggage.
They made it before with Dolph Lundgren. They made it before with Thomas Jane. The one with Thomas Jane I thought was kind of static. It was sort of like "Okay, come and stand here." I actually thought I could make a better movie.
But then when I really started thinking about what it was and the fact that the studio kind of didn't want to spend a whole lot of money, it was like "Do I want to do an action movie in 40 days? With a massive second unit?" And the script was not that good.
'The Punisher 2' seems plagued with difficulties. This is the second report of a poor script, after Thomas Jane ankled the project last month in an agonized open letter to AICN.
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