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Lexi Alexander Talks About The Punisher Sequel

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Director Lexi Alexander discusses the pre-production process of The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank on her personal blog. She also discusses the training that Ray Stevenson has had to go through to prepare for the role.

She writes:

Pre-production to me always feels like the ride up a hill on a major rollercoaster, right before the big drop. There are suddenly little airplanes in your stomach and you ask yourself why on earth you agreed to jump on this ride.

By now, everybody knows that the new PUNISHER is a remarkable actor named RAY STEVENSON. I can't find enough words of praise to describe this formidable actor and true Gentleman.

Currently he is staying at the home of his trainer and my fight choreographer, Pat Johnson. Johnson - the man, the myth, the legend - is, of course, responsible for the great fight scenes in Hooligans, as well as the boxing in my first short film, Johnny Flynton.

For the past few weekends, Ray has also had major Military training with a bunch of badass Marines from a company called Gunmetal.

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The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank is to be released sometime in 2008.


5 Comments & Responses


August 23rd, 2007 5:03pm
I'm all for superheroes being represented better in their movies with sequels, but it seems Marvel just needs to learn to pick better directors from the start.
 
August 23rd, 2007 10:26am
I loved the firts film, Thomas Jane rocked as The Punisher. I dont know why they had to pick another actor, but I sure be there when the new movie opens
 
August 23rd, 2007 7:49am
the last one went too much for an origin and had a bad plot line. I mean im a huge fan of the punisher comics. hes one of my favorite hereos of all time but they made him seem to nice in the first one. Granted Thomas Jane kicked ass as Frank Castle. The title is cool but the should have used it for the first one since it was based off of the Welcome Back Frank comics. Idk Well see how this one turns out.
 
August 23rd, 2007 7:29am
I'm not a fan of the title. But from what I have read about this sequeal so far, sounds like it could be awesome!
 
August 22nd, 2007 11:37pm
Please make a decent one this time...and by decent I mean more furious fast paced action like the previous' one finale. Spare us the 1) acoustic guitar assasin 2)torture scenes with ice cream instead of a real flame 3) dumbass/poinless plan to trap the badguys 4)..any other useless/ridiculous scenes like these which made the previous one flop...
 
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