From Comic Book To Film: Soloman Kane

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From Comic Book To Film: Soloman Kane
By Patrick Oliver
February 18, 2010 - 02:08

Studios: Essential Entertainment, Wandering star, Davis Films
Writer(s): Robert E. Howard, Michael J. Bassett
Starring: James Purefoy, Pete Postlethwaite, Max Von Sydow, Alice Krige, Jason Flemyng, Laura Baranik
Directed by: Michael J. Bassett
Produced by: Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida, Kevan Van Thompson
Running Time: 104 mins
Release Date: 6 November 2009

Hell to Pay

Conan. Kull. Kane.

And trio of hard, strong sounding names chosen by Robert E Howard for his lead characters. Conan we know of. King Kull we are familiar with. But Soloman Kane? Some of us may not know him as well.

Soloman Kane, the sixteenth century puritan who roams the surface of the Earth dedicated to wiping out evil wherever he finds it using his sword, his daggers and his pistols.

Soloman Kane has appeared in book form and in the horror-fiction pulp magazine Weird Tales. He has also been published by both Marvel Comics in the 1970's and 80's in his own title and appeared in the pages of The Savage Sword Of Conan, and by Dark Horse Comics in early

The cinema adaptation sees Kane as an mercenary who has and encounter with a supernatural being and renounces violence. His new way of life is soon put to the test however.

This looks like it could be an entertainingly dark swashbuckling horror adventure from Michael J. Bassett. It comes out here in the UK on the 19th of February. Hey, if anybody has seen it, let me know what you thought.

The trailer: