Director Lexi Alexander (Green Street Hooligans) has got to be one of the coolest women in the history of this planet we call earth. She’s in the same level as Joan of Arc and all the other girls who can literally kick ass.
The former Karate and Kickboxing champion has a new movie to be released in theaters soon, you’ve seen the first trailer, and I think we can all agree that her reboot version, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE will make us forget that Thomas Jane and John Travolta’s version a few years ago ever existed at all.
Lexi Alexander spoke via her blog recently about her reaction to the trailer. She was a bit surprised, didn’t think the it would hit the web so soon. Keeping in mind how strong rated R violence this movie will be, she’s surprised how they managed to make the trailer look so PG-13. This is what she said…
“I’m not sure what kind of impression I would get from this trailer if I didn’t actually know the film. I am utterly impressed, though, they managed to find that much PG rated action footage at all. It had to be a challenge to cut a trailer from our action stuff without showing any gore and blood.
I’ve been told that you can’t even show heads blowing up in red-band trailers. I hope that’s not true because that would suck. It’s weird to see Castle shoot all those bullets and not see the thugs who are catching them. That’s the best fucking part about it!!!”
I’m very happy that the hardcore Punisher fans recognized the lines taken directly from the comic books (all credit goes
to Ray Stevenson for that), and that MAX fans appreciated the color theme that was also directly copied from the books.
Real crime stories and comic books are two different worlds for me. It was my first priority to please The Punisher comic
book fans and with all the respect to two wonderful actors, I wasn’t trying to become a member of the Dolph Lundgren or
Thomas Jane fan club. This film is about the mythology of FRANK CASTLE, it is ultra violent and it will look not a little,
but a lot like this:
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the “Punisher Task Force” hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
Starring Ray Stevenson (HBO’s “Rome”) as Punisher, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE is directed by Lexi Alexander and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Ari Arad. The film’s executive producers are Kevin Feige, Ogden Gavanski, Oliver Hengst and Jeremy Latcham.
