Solomon Kane Poster

Through god’s will we have received a little sneak peak at the Solomon Kane film poster that Michael J. Bassett will reveal and give out to the fans at his Comic-Con presentation on Saturday at 12: 15 – 1:15  in Hall H. But that is not all, there is also a still frame of a scene from the film, which looks absolutely gorgeous in my eyes and is beautifully framed.

It has been a long way for the producers, the director, the crew and everyone else working on the film and i can only grasp at the relief and at the same time the tension they feel for revealing their baby they’ve worked on so hard for several years to the public.

If all scenes of the film are as beautifully shot as this picture, i wholeheartedly agree with Harry Knowles review and say that this film is beautifully shot. I am hyped like a child to see more of this on Saturday and cannot wait to see the scenes pop up on the internet somewhere and we will of course inform you once that happens.

Solomon Kane film frame

Michael J. Bassett has just informed the intarwebz on his blog of the puritans presence on the Toronto Film Festival! The Solomon Kane Film will be shown as part of the Midnight Madness section of the festival. There is no hard date for the screening yet, but Mr. Bassett will keep us all posted on the status.

As Mr. Bassett points out, the Toronto Film Festival is a real movie-goers event. The section the film will be shown in, will hopefully be full of genre fans that get excited about the film and spread the word of its greatness even further.

I hope the film amazes the normal people and genre fans alike, so the North-American distribution deal will be sealed with a good cut for the producers of the film. Because in the end, every person that watches the film in the cinema, increases the chance of a great sequel! So i will repeat myself, beating your eardrums to mush: Spread The Word!

Michael J. Bassett posted on his website this update on his planned appearance at the San Diego ComicCon on Saturday, July 25th.

“It’s tricky for an independant movie to get it’s voice heard amongst the cacophony of studio and network projects that are vying for attention but James and I will be there for those who want to come and say hi. I think we’re in the main hall after the LOST crew have finished up on Saturday. We’d better be, James and I have got our plane tickets and I’ve just rented a car so we can drive down from LA together.”

We hope that Misters Bassett and Purefoy remember that in American one drives on the right side of the road.

Now we have a clear date and location on the appearnce of Mr. Basset and Mr. Purefoy its Saturday, July 26 from 12: 15 – 1:15 Hall H

Michael J. Bassett has informed us on his blog, that he will attend Comic-Com and take with him some shots and scenes of his dark fantasy, horror film Solomon Kane. He said that maybe James Purefoy will also be there at Comic-Con to meet the fans and present the film together with him to the hero hungry comic crowd at the Convention.

Also, and this is super cool, Solomon Kane is going to Comic-Con.  It’s not finally, finalised but I think the hunky Mr Purefoy and myself will show a few little clips and maybe the trailer (if the damn thing is finished) around midday on Saturday 25th.   Details still a little up in the air but I can’t wait to go.  Stay tuned.

We can barely wait to see a trailer of the film and are trembling for the 25th of July when he will arrive at Comic. May the god of the puritans have mercy with us and make it so that the trailer will be finished for Comic-Con!

Back in the day when Solomon Kane was still in active production, they faced financial challenges due to currency fluctuation in Czech Republic as has been reported by screendaily. The movie was budgeted and planned in 2006 and when shooting started the currency rate had changed a lot. The article also features another production shot of Michael J. Bassett and some words on the pricing of the film itself. (Solomon Kane was shot for $25 Million)

The choice for Prag itself was not an accidental one, as Producer Paul Berrow said in the article, they chose the location on purpose because the skill set of the people they could hire there met their quality goals.

Interesting to see that something as abstracted to the average person as currency fluctuation can really push the boundaries of the possible if you handle several millions of dollars producing a movie. We can all be glad that in the end it turned out positive for Solomon Kane and that we soon will see a most likely excellent film on the big screen featuring the dark fantasy puritan.

More and more areas of the world will be blessed with Solomon Kane goodness this or next year as IMDB has updated the status of release dates for the dark fantasy film Solomon Kane.

The two new entries are:

• Russia, which is due at the 24th December 2009 (Merry Christmas Solomon!)
• Netherlands, which is due at the 14th January 2010

I hope that the distributors make sure to advertise the movie on the genre festivals all over the world like the Fantasy Filmfest in Germany, which always was a good start for many independent fantasy movies in Europe.