[LanPB01]

As much as it pains me, it sounds like The Punisher is going to be a worse movie than the Dolph Lundgren version from the 80's. Thomas Jane is not exactly ideal for the role, but that's not the worst of it. It's set in Florida, Frank Castle is now some kind of generic "special agent", his family gets killed in a deliberate hit, and he finds a T-shirt with the skull on it, and starts using it as his costume.

Gone is the New York setting, the idea of Castle being a Vietnam vet (I think he's going to be a vet of Gulf War I in this thing), and gone is the idea that his family was killed as a result of pure bad luck. I always thought this was key to the story - he and his family stumbled onto something in the middle of Central Park, and his family died as a result. The randomness of it was one of the things that pushed him over the edge, and made him go after all criminals. Don't even get me started on the idea of Castle finding a T-shirt with the skull on it.

Perhaps I've just spent too much time thinking about this.

[Sofa King]

I heard that it was going to be based off of "Welcome back Frank", and that it was going to stick pretty close to the comic, but the more I hear about it the less I believe it.