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Thomas Jane pulls out of Punisher 2!!!!!!

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I’m writing to tell you that I regretfully and painfully had to pull out of P2. 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 (Leon the Professional, Oldboy, The Seven-Ups (GREAT flick), Point Blank, Escape from NY, The Driver, Magnum Force, The Mechanic, The Great Silence, Sexy Beast, Nighthawks, Cry Vengeance (check it out), Road Warrior, Man on Fire, Outlaw Josey Wales, Rocky (think about it), Serpico, etc etc etc.) 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 – **** 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. I'm sharing this with you because I know you're a fan, like me, and you've got your ear to the ground, and because we seem to share the same sort of taste and passion when it comes to movies and stories that get us off. What I won't do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don't believe in. I’ve always loved the Marvel guys, and wish them well. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to search for a film that one day might stand with all those films that the fans have asked me to watch.


Sincerely,
Thomas Jane




Sucks. :csad:

But then again...I never saw the sequel coming off the ground anyway.
 
But, but... Advanced Dark said... What? WHAT!!? What the flying **** is going on! **** ME SIDEWAYS WITH A SCREWDRIVER!
Right now, I'm super-pissed... :cmad:

"And my sources say that Hill wanted to do the movie. Yet Lionsgate didn’t want him and are still searching…"

Are they smoking bad weed over there? **** LGF! **** THEM IN THEIR STUPID FAT ASSES!

AICN sucks also! Yea! Just because their the one delivering the message!

Anyway, thank you Thomas, for trying.
 
damnn, my day just went to sh** real fast because of this. AD I thought you said we were gonna hear good news soon?
 
man ive got this sick feeling in my stomach now...really really depressed. Punisher 2 is really the only thing ive been looking forward to for the next couple of years
 
Dammit! I was looking forward to the sequel being bigger and better. :(
 
Tom knows Adam from Punisher.com... Why did't he give the news to him? And we got it from a site that hasen't been Punisher friendly, ever!

And I actually went to bed, but I could't stop thinking about this bull****.
 
I give Jane credit, if indeed this is over him feeling like the sequel would not have been good, good for him.
 
This sucks, he had been trying to get a sequel off the ground for years now. Now he's finally gone from it.
 
I think this will be the death knell for the sequel. They were having a hard enough time WITH someone as enthusiastic as the original star attached!
 
Unless the movie is now adapted as a "the incredible hulk" type remake-sequal then I guess we got ****ed. Man is it going to be hard for this thing to get off the ground now. I wonder if Jane pulled out because the movie that was unfolding infront of him was a sucky sequal not worth the time :huh:
 
If Jane saw this as a crap project, I'm glad he walked and rather not see it made. Of course, what I really want is for the filmmaker to get their act together and make this thing happen with Jane.
 
It is disheartening to hear this. Jane really seems to have put a lot of time and effort into sculpting himself to make a better appearance as Frank Castle in the sequel, and I feel his pain over having to drop this film. But I can also read between the lines- if this script is bad enough that Jane doesn't think it can top the poor par of the first film nor engrain itself in the likes of Ennis' run, then maybe his kudos to Marvel is strictly formality. I imagine it would have to be Catwoman level and be newfound levels of difference from the books for Jane to jump ship. This does not bode well.

One of the talkback users on AICN put it perfectly- Walter Hill can't find work, yet Brett Ratner is still making films. It really does hurt the brain to see how Lionsgate is approaching this. At this point I'm wishing even FOX had the rights, if only so someone a fraction less inept could have control over this property.
 
Well, this definitely sucks, but I know that Jane knew what he was doing.
Goodbye Punisher 2. Welcome to a place called Development Hell. Maybe you'll be reconsidered in upcoming years.

*Salutes*
 
Wow. Worst news I have seen yet. My heart hurts right now. I just...don't want this to be true.
 
This is incredibly horrible news, I wouldn't care half as much if Maguire walked out of Spiderman, and I'm a bigger Spidey fan.

Jane for me made the first Punisher a real experience, his portrayal of Castle was accurate yet he made it his own, giving a heartfelt yet violent depiction.

I'm very very saddened to hear this news, and I send my condolences to Thomas who I know really wanted the role.
 
this is really.. REALLY depressing. its like losin a friend.. Sucks :(
was so lookin forward to this movie and now its like.. im not so sure anymore.
 
This is terrible....I just watched Taxi Driver today, to see what Jane was talking about, and I saw what the Punisher 2 could have been....:(
 
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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