Both producer Paul Berrow and director Michael J. Bassett have been very open and communicative with the followers of Robert E. Howard on the official REH Forums. This time a fellow Robert E. Howard fan got the chance to snatch away some time in the interview section of the spanish premiere, to ask Michael J. Bassett some of the questions that have been circling around in the REH community for a while.
France is being invaded by the puritan Solomon Kane and the ever working marketing machinery doesn’t stand still, not even over the holidays. Here we have two more interesting and great looking clips from the Solomon Kane Movie.
One shows a fight scene in a courtyard against some witch and her followers while the other is a making of, explaining the creature creation of Solomon Kane in more detail.
Every clip that is being released so far just heightens my anticipation, because every scene is dark and moody and matches Howard’s description of the world very well. Even though Michael J. Bassett took quite some liberties from REH to create his origin story, he certainly captured the world and the mood essence of REH’s yarns perfectly.
The cinema release in France is quickly closing in and Solomon Kane is pretty much up against the marketing power of Cameron’s AVATAR, but these last weeks and days are also filled with new and exciting sneak peaks into the movie, through several teaser being released. Here we have the first two, one showing a scene from the beginning of the movie, when Solomon Kane is still a mercenary for the Queen and raids a village in North-Africa and the second one is a scene where the family he travels with gets captured by badies.
So far the media attention for these two teasers has been astonishing. Not one major or minor movie dedicated page missed out on spreading the news. Everyone is excited to see the movie and of course we are still waiting for a US-release date to be announced. Stay tuned!
Enjoy!
Yesterday evening Michael J. Bassett together with James Purefoy attended a preview screening of Solomon Kane for the french audience in Paris. We’ll see what the french audience has to say on Solomon Kane very soon. But for now here is another, very interesting in-depth interview with Michael J. Bassett on Solomon Kane, where he goes a bit more into detail about his decisions, his goals and his general intention of the film itself.
I can’t wait to hear the news of a German distributor, but since Splendid film recently picked up the rights to distribute the upcoming Conan movie, they maybe interested in more Howard material. All I can say to them (and I say it in German): “Lasst euch diese Chance nicht entgehen Splendid!”