Two Brits added to SOLOMON KANE

2008 is the beginning of several cool new franchises with IRON MAN, HULK and several others but one that we shouldn't forget about is SOLOMON KANE, based on the pulp character created by Robert E. Howard (CONAN). The movie promises to be visceral supernatural spectacular with vampires, ghosts and monsters attacking a 16th century land to be defended a Puritan swordsman by the name of SOLOMON KANE. We already know that James Purefoy is Kane, veteran Max Van Sydow his father, Ian Whyte as the Reaper (a villain, we presume) and Alice Krige (she was the BORG queen in TREK) are cast but today comes news of a few more names added to the mix. Buried deep within Variety's daily updates comes the news of British actors Pete Postlethwaite and Mackenzie Crook's casting.

Postlethwaite does the supporting gig in his sleep now and it's always great to see him in something like this, wheras Crook's film career so far has been restricted to the guy whose right eye pops out in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN trilogy. Will he be the comic relief here or is he a character of some depth? DEATHWATCH director Michael J. Bassett helms the Davis Films feature which begins shooting in Prague this month.