# Solomon Kane Movie
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098 "2007-05-30T18:11:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/1 "2007-05-30T18:11:49Z")
For about thirty years, I’ve wished somebody would make a movie about Robert Howard’s dour, blood-spilling Puritan, Solomon Kane. Apparently [it’s on.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970452/)
No casting announced yet. My first thought was Hugo Weaving. Any thoughts? (Of course, they’ll probably totally screw it up, but we can hope.)
While we’re at it – any other Howard stories people would like to see on screen? Personally, I’d like to see a good movie version of _Skullface_ (contemporary story at the time, being set in 1930’s; it would make an interesting period piece now).
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/2 "2007-05-30T18:17:13Z")
Daniel Day Lewis would be great as Kane. He’s good at doing dour.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/3 "2007-05-31T01:14:39Z")
Don’t die, little thread.
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### Author:  [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/4 "2007-05-31T05:41:35Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
While we’re at it – any other Howard stories people would like to see on screen?
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If they filmed the Breckenridge Elkins stories a la _The Tick_, they might be able to pull it off.
Any frankly, I’d love to see a non-campy version of Conan.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/5 "2007-06-01T05:13:29Z")
Somewhere on this earth, I reckon, is someone capable of writing a good animated Bran Mak Morn movie, but I doubt he has access to the production company & animation studio.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/6 "2007-06-01T08:06:11Z")
Is Alan Rickman too old for the role?
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solomon-kane-movie/406098/7 "2007-06-07T12:05:35Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz]
Is Alan Rickman too old for the role?
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Interesting; he’d be great; 61 years old, though.
Hey, Liam Neeson turned 55 today. That’s not too old; he’d look great, and he knows how to handle a sword. Actually, he’s about perfect for the part.
ETA: In the movie _Kingdom of Heaven_, Neeson looked like he wore a hauberk every day of his life. The guy really gets into his part. (And his character was a lot more like the real Balian of Ibelin than the stupid made-up character Orlando Bloom played.)