Comments on: REH’s puritan Solomon Kane needs your demand!

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:05:39 +0000

It’s sounds like a fine, and probably entertaining, film but I feel that it misses it’s mark by too much to want to support it. I’ll admit that I have only read the plot synopsis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kane_(film)#Plot) but that’s enough to put me off of it.

By: Steve Dilks

Steve Dilks — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:11:12 +0000

Oh by the way I was just playing with my comment about the Solomon Kane movie,truth is i’ve not even seen it!But,hey,never let that get that in the way of a smart ass comment.Actually I’m reading Ramsey Campbeell’s adaption but not finding it that stirring.S.F.X. magazine over here in the U.K. actually really warmed to the movie giving it 4 out of 5.
Don’t miss out on checking out “El Borak and other desert adventures” by Howard,newly released from Wandering Star.Sword-slashing adventure in Afghanistan with a touch of the fantastic.A bit more relevant to the times but I doubt any producer would go near it as a source for movie material.

By: Steve Dilks

Steve Dilks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:44:47 +0000

M you can find Tulough in a lot of Howard collections,mostly ones from the 70′s.Try tracking down an Ace paperback edition of “Pigeons from hell”.Wandering Star’s “Bran Mak Morn” features both stories come to think of it as “The dark man” links the two characters in a similar way that “Kings in the night” did with Kull.Cormac Fitzgeoffrey features in Bison books “Lord of Samarcand” which feature all of Howard’s Oriental Stories set in the Crusades.They are a must read ,full of skull cleaving ,gore drenched action with just a touch of that strange melancholy pathos he was so good at conveying.

By: m

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:49:11 +0000

So solomon is a cool movie, hopefully it gets here in the states somehow, I’d like to see it. I guess with kull, though I do enjoy the stories to a degree, he really does seem to be the prototype for conan, and at least to me the character and adventures are a little more vague and far less developed than conan. I’ve actually never read the furlough o brien stories or actually cormac fitzgeoffry, is there a collection out there where its available?From what i have read of howard ( kull conan cormac mac art bran mak morn solomon kane, some lovecraftian stuff he did)I’m sure it’s awesome. I actually have fight night round 4 for ps3( I still can’t get over i’m a 30something father of 2 who plays games, i’m a big kid at heart) but I named my boxer and tried to model his appearance after steve costigan.

By: Waldgeist

Waldgeist — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:51:24 +0000

@m
I think Solomon makes for a pretty great on-screen character, but the same goes for Bran Mak Morn. The only one I don’t really wanna see a movie made of is Kull. For some reason his stories never “hooked” me really.

By: Steve Dilks

Steve Dilks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:46:52 +0000

Hey, M I always thought “Gods of Bal-Sagoth” with Turlough O’ Brien would make a good movie or even those Crusade stories with Cormac Fitzgeoffrey.Damn it,lets face it Howard wrote so much good cinematic stuff but its lost on todays conveyor belt industry producers.Solomon Kane?I was glued to my seat..otherwise i’d have left.

By: m

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:00:51 +0000

Gotta reread solomon, I have a book stashed somewhere. It’s amazing Howard work based/inspired movies have had such little luck here. Maybe theyre afraid that it resembles that van helsing garbage( Guys and Girls, I mean this on a VERY superficial level) I understand aside a Kull remake, bran mak morn is being looked at? Hey waldgeist , steve and donald, you know which howard hero i think would be awesome to see on screen and translate easily? Cormac mac art! I read those stories in the mid late 90′s( I think when they reprinted howard with the baen series)I thought they were awesome and the whole celt vking roman thing going on would be exciting in the movies…whaddaya think?