Punisher Short Film - Dirty Laundry

it was very cool, alltho the blood couldve been executed better. well, depending on budget and production time. over all still amazing
 
Quote from Tom over on our RAW studios forum:

Tom Jane:
the short was done for absolutely no money. 1984 pictures paid for the location and the food for the crew. that's it! the rest is all Phil Joanou. he pulled in a lot of favors on this - that means everyone who worked on it did it for fun - on their off days. the sfx turned out pretty f*&%ing good for $Free, in mho.

we didn't even have enough security. there's video of Phil personally escorting some crazy man who wouldn't get out of the shot. it was AWESOME. he mad dogged this dude until he got the hell off the set. epic.

no money for an original score. i know Phil was worried about peoples attention span because it's an internet short - thats why the use of music.
it does its job, but i know that if this were a feature he would have painted it differently..

we wanted to treat the short like it was a clip from a lost Punisher film. it lives on the 'net as a fan film and that's all it is. so there is no hollywood money in this thing - just a hell of a lot of talent from everyone involved.

it's a little fish in an OCEAN of fish, so we may have painted it with a couple of loud stripes.

props to the DP

Masanobu Takayanagi

who shot THE GREY! and Phil's coloring is tops.
 
Sweet..good to see that he chimed in about the making process. It's fantastic that everybody did it as a fun project at no cost.

Marvel now please get Thomas Jane back for Punisher.
 
This was awesome!
I've been wanting TJ back as the Punisher for a long time and hope this short gets some people interested in making that happen in a new feature length film.
 
Sometimes a film is hobbled by its need to unburden the "origin" of a character.

I feel with with that obligation dispatched - along with John Travolta- I feel the Punisher might really rock in an unfettered state. The Punisher is a simple concept; I don't need a lot of justification with a surplus of details to convince me that thug X deserves punishment. I am willing to accept "Frank Castle's" judgement on faith.

I really, really like Thomas Jane as an actor. That short was better than the entire Jane/Travolta Miami soap opera
 
I enjoyed this and miss Thomas Jane as the Punisher. If they can do this on their off time, think of the story they could do with a Hollywood budget!

And does a bottle of Jack never break? Even after all that?
 
I enjoyed this and miss Thomas Jane as the Punisher. If they can do this on their off time, think of the story they could do with a Hollywood budget!

And does a bottle of Jack never break? Even after all that?


Trust me, it takes ALOT to break a full bottle of Jack, as a bartender I dropped a full one onto the concrete floor and it actually chipped the concrete :lol
 
I loved this short, this is what I would expect from a punisher film. As said before Tomas Jane is a great actor and I feel he's a great punisher.
 
I wasn't a fan of the Thomas Jane Punisher film, but it's clear he's a big fan of the material, and I think that, based on this short, he really could have sold the character better. He doesn't quite look the part, but he has the gravitas down.

The three Punisher films have just been...off. The Dolph Lundgren one was too basic and boring. He was just some dude with guns and greasy hair. The next two were too cartoony in their own ways. My experience with the Punisher was never with any of the "big" badguys who all basically seem like more psychopathic versions of Dick Tracy villains. Instead, he was going up against guys like neo nazis, usually. It all felt very grounded in reality rather than over-the-top cartoony. This is stuff from back in the mid-80s when Klaus Jensen was drawing the series, though.

This short, I thought, did a terrific job of portraying Castle's detachment and drive without going completely over the top. It felt grounded, gritty, and rough. I also like that it LACKED humor. To me, there's nothing funny about The Punisher. He's a broken, borderline psychotic who kills criminals. He shouldn't be killing them in outlandish ways just for the sake of outlandish kills. He should just use what's available to him in the moment -- as in this short. He shouldn't be cracking jokes, and frankly, I can do without humor altogether in the films. I'd rather they be FAR more somber.

I wonder if Marvel is paying attention here...


Also, major props to both Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman. Gotta love those guys. They seem to really "get" fans.
 
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I think the problem with Jane's Punisher film was that the studio was more interested in saying "Look, we've got an authentic star like John Travolta playing our comicbook bad guy!". Really thought I smelled Studio screw up with that one.

And my apologies to any Travolta lover out there... Punisher, Broken Arrow, Swordfish... I just don't buy him as a villain.

And yet I can buy the guy who played Ghandi (Ben Kingsley) just fine as a bad guy. I don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.
 
Just watched this. It was ok. Better than the Punisher film he did but it could have had some original music at least. Still, I'm more of a War Zone fan... I don't think Jane could do the Punisher any more justice if he made another full length video.. This was probably about it.
 
I think the problem with Jane's Punisher film was that the studio was more interested in saying "Look, we've got an authentic star like John Travolta playing our comicbook bad guy!". Really thought I smelled Studio screw up with that one.

And my apologies to any Travolta lover out there... Punisher, Broken Arrow, Swordfish... I just don't buy him as a villain.

And yet I can buy the guy who played Ghandi (Ben Kingsley) just fine as a bad guy. I don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.

That, and the fact that Jane mainly annoyed (as opposed to punished) the bad guys throughout the movie. :lol
 
I think the problem with Jane's Punisher film was that the studio was more interested in saying "Look, we've got an authentic star like John Travolta playing our comicbook bad guy!". Really thought I smelled Studio screw up with that one.

And my apologies to any Travolta lover out there... Punisher, Broken Arrow, Swordfish... I just don't buy him as a villain.

And yet I can buy the guy who played Ghandi (Ben Kingsley) just fine as a bad guy. I don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.

Well, if it's not acting talent -- and it may not be -- it could be because Travolta's parts were written and directed much more poorly in those films. He ended up being unconvincing because he had to play it too over the top, to the point where it becomes comical.
 
Dear Marvel,

Bring Thomas Jane back as the Punisher, please. He clearly still has the chops for it. Thank you for your time. :D

-CB2001
 
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