“Everyone thinks they’re right in a War, but everyone still dies in the end,” Detective Wallis tells Nick Hume in Death Sentence.
I’ve always found vigilante stories fascinating. To me, it’s one of the big appeals of Batman (and how Christopher Nolan is handling the character. However, I must admit, while I was excited to see Death Sentence, I was expecting very little. The trailers made the story look ridiculous (which, it very well may be, but while you’re watching to film, you don’t notice as much).
James Wan is also a very interesting case in terms of directors. He burst onto the scene with SAW at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. It was a horror film which gave birth to three sequels and a lot of imitators, much in the way both Scream and The Ring introduced a new era of horror films. But his follow-up, Dead Silence, was virtually unseen, and much less critically acclaimed. Death Sentence is a return to form. He takes the vigilante movie genre and adds a couple new twists, and delivers on the brutal violence you would expect from the guy who made SAW.
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Fox Atomic wants everyone to know that just because their big brother (20th Century Fox) has pulled out, doesn’t mean that Fox’s genre division won’t have a presence at this week’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out the press release below.
Fox Atomic Announces Presence at San Diego Comic-Con 2007
LOS ANGELES, July 23 — Fox Atomic announced today its
plans for the upcoming Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego, CA
on July 26-29. The initiatives planned will include signings and giveaways
on behalf of the Fox Atomic graphic novels The Nightmare Factory (retails
9/07), 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, and The Hills Have Eyes: The
Beginning; an online sweepstakes to win the 1969 Ford Mustang from the film
Death Sentence (8/31), starring Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, and Kelly
Preston, and directed by James Wan (Saw); and a contest at the Fox Atomic
booth where fans enter to win a Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by the
cast of The Rocker, which stars Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate.
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The marketing department at 20th Century Fox have created a San Deigo Comic-Con exclusive poster for the Kevin Bacon thriller Death Sentence. It’s a huge improvement over the red blob they previously released. We posted the trailer for the film last week. James Wan’s (SAW) new movie follows John Hume (Bacon), a local business manager of Boston, a peaceful, calm and very caring man with the perfect family and life. But all that changes one night when his eldest son is murdered during a hold-up. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually turns to violence, revenge, and vigilantism. He vows to kill each perpetrator on the streets who was involved in the murder of his son, while at the same time the gang vows their own revenge agenda. Check out the full comic con exclusive poster after the jump. We’ve also included the original one-sheet for comparison.
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20th Century Fox has released the new trailer for James Wan’s (SAW) Death Sentence. The film stars Kevin Bacon as John Hume, a local business manager of Boston, a peaceful, calm and very caring man with the perfect family and life. But all that changes one night when his eldest son is murdered during a hold-up. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually turns to violence, revenge, and vigilantism. He vows to kill each perpetrator on the streets who was involved in the murder of his son, while at the same time the gang vows their own revenge agenda. There is a lack of vigilante movies in Hollywood today, and this looks interesting. Wan exploded onto the scene with SAW, and hasn’t done too much since. So I’m really excited to see what else he can do. We’ve been invited to a special breakfast with Wan in a couple weeks, so look for a report on that later. The film hits theaters on August 31st. Check out the trailer after the jump.
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