Thomas Jane isn't waiting around by the phone for the next big thing to fall into his lap. He unveiled the Punisher fan-film #DIRTYLAUNDRY to prove that Frank Castle (now legally back with Marvel Studios) still has cinematic life left in him. He's making a video game based on his comic Bad Planet, and funded by Kickstarter. And just for fun, he whipped up a fake trailer for a Six Billion Dollar Man movie, using footage from other movies. He's certainly no plain Jane, as our recent interview reveals.
Nerdist News: #DIRTYLAUNDRY was one of the most buzzed-about films once the Comic-Con dust settled. What inspired you to make the film and why do you feel that this isn't the kind of superhero film that Hollywood could make on their own?
Thomas Jane: I love the character and I'm a fan of the old pulp crime novels by Harry Whittington, Donald Westlake and of course Don Pendleton. The kind of anti-hero stuff that was done so well in the 60's & 70's has always inspired me to do something in that vein, and the Frank Castle character was just crying out for that kind of treatment. But that's not an easy sell today.
N: You currently have a Kickstarter to make your comic Bad Planet a game. What are the challenges of translating Bad Planet into a game, as opposed to writing a comic?
TJ: The game opens up worlds that were only hinted at in the comic. It'll be a serialized game, so we can get epic with the scale and scope of the Bad Planet world and tell a lot of story, while causing galaxy wide mayhem with the DeathSpiders and other alien creepy crawlers. Our lead is another 'anti-hero' - an escaped convict from an intergalactic prison, come to earth to exact revenge on the alien race known as the Quadropoids - who also destroyed his homeworld with the DeathSpiders. The problem is, the Convict doesn't seem to care if he destroys our planet in the process.
NN: You've made a Frank Castle fan film and cut a Six Billion Dollar Man trailer... What other fan obsessions do you want to tackle?
TJ: I want to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune into a giant, multi-part comic book series. Get the whole book in there, adapted to comics. And I want Tim Bradstreet to ink it.
For more on Jane's latest gains, check out our full-length interview at Nerdist.com.
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