Tom Jane talks Punisher 2 & more...

[zer00]

^ WTF are you guys talking about? I can see you three cackling in the dark stirring a pot of soup with human bones in it. I have no clue what you're talking about. All I said was that he's super busy. It's not beyond him to come here or any other actors/directors. He's said before he's been here. I think you read a tone into my post that wasn't there or you were responding to someone else and I"m crazy...or both. Maybe next time I'll put an LOL after each post so you understand my tone. Jeez.

Edit: LOL

riiiiight, go post a Q&A with Favreu or something

Edit: REGONOMICS!

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ I already did...and for Tim Story, and for Zak Penn. Just trying to be productive instead of complaining about other peoples threads and posts. Lighten up. You took my origin post the wrong way. If you don't stop I'll tell Tom Jane on you!

 

[ObakeTora]

Tom Jane will make you all stand in the corner and make you guys smack each other with a wet noodle to the tune of "Misty."

Tom is too busy boning supermodels and smoking bomb ass erb to be up in hizzeeeaaa!

aint that right Tom?

 

[ObakeTora]

Tom?

 

[GEDRedemption]

Any news as to when this is coming?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

What the hell is going on with this sequel? There's been no news for a LONG time.

 

[jrd550]

What's the story with Punisher 2? At this rate it will be out in 2010.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Nothing new anywheres. LGF is the comic con and hopefully Jane will be there too promoting his films. 2 weeks.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Its just frustrating, waited so long for Hulk news and then got the re-make ****, now Hellboy and Punisher are doing the same, getting sick of it.

 

[Casius--J]

I know they takin their sweet time with this film. I want a sequel dammit!!!

 

[Jinnobi]

Does Punisher have any main villains other than Jigsaw?

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ They're all dead.

 

[ObakeTora]

dont rule out VonBurian

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ I e-mailed Jen over at http://www.tomjane.com or actually posted a message there regarding the San Diego Comic-Con and if Jane will be there. I'll post whatever response I get.

 

[Retroman]

Its just frustrating, waited so long for Hulk news and then got the re-make ****, now Hellboy and Punisher are doing the same, getting sick of it.

Yeah thats what i'm wondering myself. These movies are taking forever to get off the ground.

Its weird that no one has interviewed (or been able to) Jonathan Hensleigh or Gale Anne Hurd the producer to ask whats going on.Jane and Avi Arad are the only ones who are talking.

 

[Retroman]

I'm sure everyone has heard this news, Jane got married recently.

THAT'S AMORE!

Patricia Arquette and her longtime boyfriend, actor Thomas Jane, set sail on a romantic gondola ride Sunday after tying the knot at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice, Italy.

CREDIT: Gianmarco Maggiolini

PUBLISHED: TUESDAY JUNE 27, 2006 06:00AM EST



Source: http://people.aol.com/people/gallery/0,26335,1205985_3,00.html

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Yeah thats what i'm wondering myself. These movies are taking forever to get off the ground.

Its weird that no one has interviewed (or been able to) Jonathan Hensleigh or Gale Anne Hurd the producer to ask whats going on.Jane and Avi Arad are the only ones who are talking.

I know, just one interview with either of those two could clear up A LOT. But its just not happening.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I'm sure everyone has heard this news, Jane got married recently.

THAT'S AMORE!

Patricia Arquette and her longtime boyfriend, actor Thomas Jane, set sail on a romantic gondola ride Sunday after tying the knot at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice, Italy.

CREDIT: Gianmarco Maggiolini

PUBLISHED: TUESDAY JUNE 27, 2006 06:00AM EST



Source: http://people.aol.com/people/gallery/0,26335,1205985_3,00.html

Congratulations Tom!!!!!!

 

[Retroman]

UPDATE
A brand new interview with Jane, its a great read. Things aren't looking good for the sequel. He reveals that he's signed on to Frank Darabont's The Mist which starts shooting in February and he says still don't have a script for Punisher 2.

http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=16200

If i were a betting man i'd say Punisher we'll have to wait another 8-13 months before they start production? If ever....

 

[Advanced Dark]

Hensleigh is still writing it. Is this the same article??? I knew he was gonna do MIST awhile ago.

Exclusive: Thomas Jane Targets The Mist and The Mutant Chronicles
The Punisher star discusses his upcoming slate of projects.
by Scott Collura
December 8, 2006 - Thomas Jane is best known to genre fans as the live-action incarnation of Marvel Comics' vigilante antihero The Punisher, and the actor is clearly playing to that core fan-base with several of his upcoming projects which are keeping him firmly in the realm of sci-fi and horror. It was revealed last week that he had been cast in The Mist, director Frank Darabont's adaptation of the Stephen King novella, and Jane also recently completed principal photography on The Mutant Chronicles, a picture that obviously has a bit of a sci-fi edge to it. Jane jumped on the phone with IGN yesterday to chat, and he let loose with some details about both films.

"Yes, [The Mist] just came through. Let's see, I play a guy named David Drayton. He's the guy in the mist," says a droll Jane. "He's got a wife, a kid. There's a big storm and all the power goes out. He takes his kid to the grocery story to get a bunch of supplies and then the mist envelopes the store and the f**king creatures come out and start eating everybody."

Sounds like a King story, that's for sure. Jane says that he likes making genre films such as this, simply because those are the kind of movies he's always wanted to see.

"[I've been a] big fan, ever since I was a kid," he says of Stephen King's work. "I'm a big horror and sci-fi guy, and I'm always looking for some good scripts. We've got a great one here. I know we've got a terrific story, a great script. Darabont is the perfect guy for the job. I know he's wanted to do the movie for years, so it looks like a load of fun."

Another script that attracted Jane's attention was the more sci-fi-ish Mutant Chronicles. Based on a role-playing game of the same name, the picture doesn't carry the same pedigree as a King/Darabont project, though Jane is no less enthusiastic about it.

"We shot that one over the summer in the Isle of Man and we had a lot of fun," he says. "It's a really interesting film, me and Ron Perlman, and I was very impressed by the quality of the production we did. It's going to be in post for another 15 months. It doesn't come out until the summer of 2008."

The film falls into the realm of steampunk, that interesting and potentially visually arresting form of fiction that places science fiction ideas into a 19th century context or look -- think an H.G. Wells time machine, for example, with dials and brass knobs and leather seats and, of course, steam power.

"It's a steampunk kind of a world," Jane explains of the film. "What's happened is we've kind of gone full circle. This is several hundred years in the future, and we've exhausted our natural resources, so we're back to steam power. Of course, it's very sophisticated steam power, with ships and all sorts of guns and just about everything, but it's all steam power. But that gives it a sort of post-apocalyptic, Victorian, black smoke, coal kind of feel to everything, which is really unique and beautiful. In that world, countries have dissolved into corporations. There are no more countries, just four corporations and they're constantly at war. And being an employee of a corporation means that you're basically a soldier, and the whole world is torn apart. During this war, nothing is sacred anymore -- they don't care if it's a church or what, they'll bomb the f**k out of anything. And they end up bombing Stonehenge, revealing that underneath there is an ancient seal. That seal gets cracked, and that was protecting something that is unleashed, and then we have real big problems. The ancient Druids had originally sealed it up, so we call on this order of monks to try to re-seal this evil that has gotten back in the world. So it's a mission movie, it's got creatures -- mutants! It's fun."

The steampunk elements of the film will be largely achieved through practical visual effects rather than computer animation, hence the long postproduction time. It's a process that Jane enjoyed participating in.

"They're taking an approach where they're not using any CGI, or very little CGI," the actor explains. "We did three-and-a-half weeks of model shoots. So they built everything in miniature, all the cool stuff. Spaceships, castles, all the neat stuff that today you'd draw

 

[FireandIce213]

damn it really isnt looking good for the sequel . Oh well Tom Jane remains one of my favorite actors

 

[zer00]

I'm so glad that the reviewed script looks to be still being used

 

[Punisher 04]

Hensleigh is still writing it. Is this the same article??? I knew he was gonna do MIST awhile ago.

I don't know what you mean in this post?

 

[Fried Gold]

I think the Punisher sequel will turn into Marvel's very own Indiana Jones 4.

 

[TheCaptain22555]

Awesome. I can imagine a more ruthless Punisher (much like the MAX version) in part 2.