On cable, On Demand. I’ve been wanting to see it since I read about it a few years ago- but it was never released in the US- not even on DVD, from what I could find.
It was a good, dark sword-and-sorcery type movie- and a good interpretation of the Robert Howard character. Why wasn’t it released in the US on the big screen? With a halfway decent marketing campaign, I don’t see why it couldn’t at least have made back its modest $40 million budget.
Anyone else seen it?
Saw it via the region two release awhile back. Thought it was “meh.” Gabriel Byrne would have been perfect for the lead…
Never heard of it! Is it one of those comic book movies?
I’ve read the Solomon Kane short stories, & I wish Howard had written a few more.
I liked it, I thought it was a fine swords and sorcery type movie.
There was some cool make up practical effects in it too.
Hearst wouldn’t allow it.
I had bought the Region 2 DVD and thought it was a very good movie. There will be a limited theatrical release later this month; I’m looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.
James Purefoy did a good job, as usual. It also had an excellent supporting cast, including Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite and Jason Flemyng.
Really strange that it hasn’t been released in the US until now. It’s better than most of the crap that hits theaters here - maybe that’s the reason, after all.
Salinqmind, Solomon Kane is a character created by Robert E Howard, who also created Conan. Kane is a Puritan who fights evil in the early 17th century.
Well played, sir.
That went over my head and I’m a Howard fan.
I didn’t think the film was an accurate interpretation of Howard’s Solomon Kane, but it was a fun movie.
The joke is that William Randolph Hearst blocked the release of Solomon Kane, similar to his attempts to stop the release of Citizen Kane.
How was it inaccurate? FAR more accurate than the Conan adaptations, they toned down the religious stuff a wee bit but other than that?
The love interest is a teen girl, would raise some eyebrows nowadays but not in the time period the movie is set. That was one thing I liked about the movie, it did not change things that would squick modern people.
The film maker added Kane’s origins and the monk like behavior at the beginning.
He hasn’t been to Africa to acquire the magic stick from the witch doctor, I guess.
And the film Conan of curse has no blue eyes! 