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The Punisher - Extended Cut DVD

post #1 of 4
11/30/06 at 11:01am
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The director says the movie cost 15 million?!?

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In the theatrical version, Frank Castle [played by Thomas Jane] is discovered to be an undercover FBI agent through investigation by henchmen hired by crime figure Howard Saint [played by John Travolta]. Now in this extended cut, Hensleigh was able to put back all the scenes which explains that Castle’s best friend and FBI agent Jimmy Weeks [played by A. Russell Andrews] was the one who told Saint who Castle was, that he was still alive and at a family reunion.

Included with that footage is a sequence set in Kuwait during the Gulf War giving backstory to the Castle/Weeks relationship. The production was unable to afford the cost of shooting that scene so it was dropped. But in the new Extended Cut DVD that sequence has been put back using animation which turns photos of the actors into Tim Bradstreet drawings. I got a chance to talk with the very outspoken Jonathan Hensleigh from his home in California

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=92646
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post #2 of 4
11/30/06 at 11:36am
I was just reading that same article. Man, Hensleigh sounds pretty bitter about a lot of the stuff that went on during the production. Don't really blame him, but he seems very "Not my problem". I kinda like that.
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post #3 of 4
11/30/06 at 11:40am
If only he had a leg to stand on, being that his scripts are largely pedestrian, there's very few competent moments in "The Punisher", and he remade "Cannibal Holocaust" by using the title of a Guns 'n' Roses song.
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post #4 of 4
11/30/06 at 11:48am
I still think they should have went with the original title "Saints vs. The Hydrant", but that's just me.
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