Punisher War Zone Movie Peek

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Cinematical has a great interview with The Punisher: War Zone director Lexi Alexander. The image shown is Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle The Punisher. If you read the comics or have seen either of the previous films (Dolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane respectively), then you know Castle becomes a vigilante after his family is killed. For some reason he looks a lot like Steven Seagal in that picture.

Does this movie take place more in the Marvel universe or in its own world?

Lexi Alexander: Well I think in the sense of the other Marvel characters, it’s definitely in its own world in terms of location, though, we call it the Marvel New York because, you know, rather than setting it in the real New York, we wanted it to have a little bit of a surreal feeling.

What one thing do you think distinguishes your take on The Punisher compared to the last Punisher movies that fans of the comic will truly appreciate?

LA: Well, the last Punisher movie really wasn’t relevant to us. There’s a lot of comparison to it, but none of the people on my team ever looked at that and said how can we be different or better — we just kind of made our own film. The one thing I concentrated on was to really really make it as close to the MAX series as possible. I think we really achieved it as far as the look, as well as the tone. When I look at the dailies that I’m getting, I seriously feel like I’m looking at a MAX comic book right in front of me.

Related question: I think one thing the comic fans will realize immediately is that the world we created feels like the comic book in terms of the look as well.

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