Director Lexi Alexander unveils new stills from the Punisher: War Zone set and announces the birth of the future Punisher!
In her blog, updated January 28th, director Lexi Alexander offered this update on the much-anticipated Punisher: War Zone production:
"Greetings from Vancouver, BC, where we will shoot a pick up scene during the night on top of a high-rise roof at below zero temperatures.
I don’t know what it is with this film, but apparently, the price of getting it right seems to be complete torture of both the crew and cast. Ha, ha. This time, though, we all seem to be less bothered by the conditions, mainly because we look forward to seeing each other again to complete a film we are all very proud of.
They say that if a film is blessed with the birth of a baby during its production it will have all the luck in the world and will be hugely successful. Well, fasten your seatbelts, because we had not one but two little ones arrive. None other than the Punisher himself, Ray Stevenson and his beautiful lady Betta celebrated the birth of their son Sebastiano Derek Stevenson (aka Future Punisher) on December 24th.
My cinematographer Steve Gainer actually missed the birth of his beautiful daughter Lexi Lu Gainer, since she was born during pre-production on October 12th, when we were buried in so much work that he couldn’t leave Montreal even for a day. So there you have it -- The PUNISHER in luck -- not that we relied on that!!
I know you guys haven’t really seen any of my favorite shots of Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, so I am attaching a couple of stills. Hope you enjoy them and, if I make it down from the roof without freezing any limbs off, I’ll update you on the post progress very soon.
Onwards and upwards!
Lexi"
Punisher: War Zone also stars Wayne Knight as the Punisher’s side-kick, Linus Lieberman, AKA Microchip, and Dominic West as the Punisher’s nemesis, Jigsaw.
Punisher: War Zone blasts into theaters September 12, 2008.