Punisher: War Zone, aka Punisher: We Hope This One Doesn’t Suck As Hard as the Last Two, has just about finished casting the central players. It’s schedule to begin shooting next month in Montreal.

According to Hollywood Reporter, Punisher Ray Stevenson (Rome) will be joined by Dominic West of the Wire, who will play Jigsaw, "a mob assassin whose face was torn to shreds and stitched back together like a jigsaw puzzle."  Doug Hutchison, that one guy from that one movie, will play "LBJ aka Looney Bin Jim, a chemically unbalanced lunatic who considers the world his own private killing field and goes on a maniacal rampage." And Newman from Seinfeld (Wayne Knight) will play "Microchip, the Punisher’s armorer and confident — the man who supplies him with his stockpile of weapons and one of the few people who knows the Punisher’s true identity."

I’m against this movie in principle – you don’t get to keep remaking the same property over and over again just because the last one sucked.  Otherwise you end up with 60-year-old Rambo.  But I have to admit casting Titus Pullo from Rome was a solid decision.  A man who can smile in another man’s face and then bite off his tongue is a man who can win my heart.  I’m old fashioned like that, I guess. 

Punisher 2 (even though it's really the third one, if you count the one with Dolph Lundgren) finally got a title – Punisher: War Zone. 

This surely is great news to the five idiots I want to punch in the neck for having shitty taste who actually care. 

Honestly, how many times do you get to remake a movie that sucks?  10 years from now, am I gonna pass a marquee that says Hairspray 6: We Promise You Don't Have to Like the Way Cock Tastes to Like This?  I mean, you figured anybody who'd been burned by even the first three just wouldn't trust the title anymore.  

Also, remember when you had to be a nobleman or do something cool to get a title?  Like "Lord Fauntleroy" or "The Earl of Sandwich" (who was cool, but not in Count Nacho Supreme's league). 

Now you just have to be a shitty sequel to a movie nobody cared about anyway whose script wasn't even good enough to get the original actors back, apparently. 

I'm still waiting in vain for the movie adaptation of Lord and Lady Douchebag.