Solomon Kane got picked up by Lionsgate for the US!
Lionsgate did pick up Solomon Kane for a US release, according to Fangoria. There is no release date, not even a vague one as the plans Lionsgate has with the movie are not yet totally clear. It remains to be seen, they continue, of Solomon Kane will get a cinema release, before going to DVD.
I really hope that Solomon Kane gets a wide US release, with all the advertising shabang the movie deserves. It would break my heart to see this pearl go direct-to-dvd just because the distributors are afraid of anything coming out of the independent market.
UPDATE
The director Michael J. Bassett has posted on his twitter, that the rumour about Lionsgate is not true. This is sad news, let’s hope someone picks up SK for real soon.
I absolutely concur. Having seen “Solomon Kane” at the Austin Fantastic Fest, I can tell you this is a quality film that deserves a fair chance with a wide theatrical distribution. We can only hope that the execs at Lionsgate are thinking the same thing.
It will happen. Theses day we need a good / bad guy.
Howard would be pleased.
Just saw the trailer for this film on movies.yahoo.com, I am sorely disappointed that it’s not been released, it looks fantastic. And what with all the metaphysical movies released of late, I cannot understand why it’s not in theaters already. Hell, Uwe Boll films get released in theaters, and by all accounts this is far superior.
So, should and movie companies be looking, you have a whole house of roommates (8 of us) that want this movie in theaters, like, yesterday, and every person we’ve shown the trailer to asks why they haven’t heard of it.
To arms!
I’ve been a Solomon Kane fan since first laying my hands on one of three hard to come-by paperback volumes back in the sixties. I too have seen the trailers and although I am disappointed at the deviations and outright latitude taken with the character himself (never read this plot in any of Howard’s original work) I must confess that seeing my long time childhood hero (right alongside the Lancer Paperback Conan) finally brought to the big screen to be an eagerly anticipated treat. My fear is not so much whether it gets picked up for viewing but rather whether or not I’ll be able to acquire it finally on DVD. There is a positively superb Viggo Mortensen film, Spanish, subtitled called “El Capitan” which is vanishing the way of the Dodo, never to be released here in the grand old USA which would rather see guns blazing and things exploding instead of heroes who face villians face to face, sword to sword with no fear of death should they fail but doing the right thing anyway. Oh well, enough pontificating. Here’s hoping both films see the light of day glinting off of good steel.