A Trailer Shows up for the Jason Statham Remake of The Mechanic

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:45:01 +0000

A trailer materialized for director Simon West’s remake of The Mechanic. Jason Statham stars in the main role with support from Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland. West hasn’t really handled a large theatrical release since Con-Air, The General’s Daughter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He’s been doing a lot of television work in recent years including Human Target. It’ll be interesting to see what he does with this material.

This isn’t slated to come out until December 15, 2010. We’ll be there.

Here’s the promo trailer.

We here at Blunt Force are big fans of the Michael Winner-directed original released in 1972. Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent were both awesome as aging hitman and young protege. While not a trailer here is an homage to the original action-thriller. Dig it.

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Sean Phillips’ Sinners Cover and Jacques Tardi’s WW1 Comic

Jason Thibault — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:00:30 +0000

Artist Sean Phillips previewed the trade jacket for the Sinners collection pictured below. Sinners is the latest miniseries under his and writer Ed Brubaker’s Criminal moniker published by Marvel’s ICON imprint.

And while we’re at it here’s Phillips’ rendition of Chuck Bronson.

Now that FOX launched the new Warner Bros. television series HUMAN TARGET in late January, Vertigo is collecting the original 4-issue Vertigo HUMAN TARGET miniseries written by Peter Milligan with art by Edvin Biukovic along with the follow-up, standalone, 96-page HUMAN TARGET: FINAL CUT OGN with art by Javier Pulido.

Here’s a link to the first issue which DC Comics has posted online for you to peruse.

Jason Starr author of graphic novel crime graphic novel THE CHILL goes down a list of his 6 most influencial crime novels. I agree with him regarding Ken Bruen.

One of the most unique stylist in crime fiction–think Raymond Chandler meets Samuel Beckett. Bruen can do more in less space than any other crime writer.

Diamond PREVIEWS is hosting 8 pages of Jacques Tardi’s World War 1 comic IT WAS THE WAR OF THE TRENCHES. Fantagraphics is putting this out as a hardcover first. From the description:

Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles. Like Remarque, he focuses on the day-to-day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, he brings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Yet he also delves deeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical political exploitation of patriotism.

Sounds good to me.

And here’s the cover to SCALPED #35 by Jock, a one off that will have art by Danijel Zezelj and should be out now. Holy fuck.

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A Trailer Shows up for the Jason Statham Remake of The Mechanic

Sean Phillips’ Sinners Cover and Jacques Tardi’s WW1 Comic