I’d definitely love to see those same filmmaking team with a bigger budget, and freedom, to do a series, with the character. Then we wouldn’t need so much origin in a movie, and instead tell it in short flashbacks, as we meet characters along the way.
Very much enjoyed it except the CGI fire monster at the end but as already stated, the film didn't have a big budget. I'm glad it was made when it was, Pete Postlethwaite was fantastic and is no longer with us while James Purefoy showed far too much testosterone for films made now.
The character depicted in the film is nothing like the character from the Howard stories. The movie may have been entertaining, but it wasn't Solomon Kane.
Huh, after seeing Caslte of the Undead I'm thinking it'd be cool if Solomon Kane was an ancestor to Prof. Abraham van Helsing, and that's why the Prof. knew about vampires and monsters. Would be cool, like the descendant of one of Dracula's greatest foes returns to finish what his ancestor could not.
In the 1960's we had heroes that were mopey and confused. Spider-man, The Hulk, the Thing, the X-men, and Captain American when Stan Lee brought him back in Avengers #4. Marvel Heroes had the appropriate mood considering they were both shunned for their hero personas and for their civilian ones. This made them stand out way more than their DC Comics counterparts. If that kind of hero doesn't work for someone they can always just stick to DC, but in the 60's the mopey and confused heroes at Marvel outsold DC because the audience Identified with them. Then their was Spawn in the 90's who was really mopey and confused and at the time incredibly popular.
Spider-Man and the Hulk, yes, but the first issue of X-Men: fun in the combat simulator, saving a military base from Magneto, getting thanks from a general. And the 90s also had Lobo. As for Spawn, him being an anti-hero mattered more than being mopey.
I haven’t read the Dracula Solomon Kane stories, but it sounds freaking badass. And hillarious, considering Van Helsing ripped of Solomon Kane. I wonder if they read the Solomon Kane comics, wanted to make a movie, but couldn’t, so they made him Van Helsing? Gonna get the comics. I already read all of the Solomon Kane prose stories.
Thank you sir. A few days ago I read Kull and I was wondering to buy this book as well. I know they made a movie. I didn't know that pulp is a short story. I learn something new today, thank you.
1:19 "Pulp" the sort of paper the magazines used, not a "short story". Pulp paper is cheap and easier to mass produce, which made it popular with publishers during the Great Depression.
@jan_review @jan_review I love the pulp era of storytelling. So much of our modern crime, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories were directly or indirectly inspired from the pulp era. What's also interesting is this era saw an explosion of new writers that hadn't been seen before that point. Before the pulp era, most novelists were from the upper class.
It would be really cool if we got a Solomon Kane video game. I'm imagining that the gameplay would be a lot like the Witcher, and the combat would be like from Assassin's Creed: Unity.
@@emporium-of-the-weird Hard to say, I collected the comics piecemeal so there's a bunch of stories that I only have 1 or 2 issues of. "The Book of Thoth" and "Weight of the Crown" are my favorites that I have the whole sets for.
I loved reading the short stories in the backs of Savage Sword of Conan comics, and listen to audio books here on youtube, I've made a playlist of Conan,Solomon Kane and Kull audio books, there great to listen to when your busy doing something and when going to sleep 😴 💤
Just saw this video in Jan. '23. The 1st story you quoted Red Shadows was a story written by Howard the 2nd where Kane meets Dracula was not a Howard story but done by Marvel Comics. Marvel rarely got Solomon Kane right. Howard Chaykin worked, for a while. One off-beat artist did seem to get Kane & a Marvel/Kane story right. There was a movie some years back; but like the Kull movie in the '90's, we don't want to talk about that.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. The Dark Horse omnibus that features in the video was my first exposure to Solomon Kane and Howard’s work in general. I just assumed at the time that everything that featured in the Dark Horse omnibus were REH original work.
@@emporium-of-the-weird Your are welcome sir. I was an R.E.H. Fan(atic) through out the 1970's & early '80's. I first read the Kane stories via Centaur Press's Time Lost series. It was a small Co. that did reprints of old Pulp Era stories . Take care.
It’s d Far better than the PG-13 Kull movie, but had even less budget. It’s a character ripe for a series, but we haven’t even gotten a real Kull or Conan series, or movie, other than Milius’s Conan, in 1982. Even that movie wasn’t very true to the Howard books, but Milius did get the essence of the character, and just structured a story of his own around it.
@@emporium-of-the-weird Howard only sold 7 Kane stories, in his lifetime. So most of what’s out there, isn’t written by him. As the other commenter pointed out, some writers were better than others, but I’m more forgiving, whether Kull, Conan or Kane. I grew up collecting the Savage Sword of Conan, and then King Conan, which usually had Kull short stories, in the back. They had that killer art on the covers, with excellent black and white comics inside. I found them at various garage sales, in the mid 80’s, when parents or teenagers, were getting rid of their stuff, before leaving the nest. I made a lot of money for a 7 year old, buying boxes of comics for $10, then being able to sell many of them a few years later, for anywhere from 25 cents, to $500, for the most valuable comic I had acquired. It was a Spider-Man with a first appearance by the Punisher. It was in terrible condition, and maybe would be worth $750-850 now, over 30 years later. $500 was a lot for a ten year old. People were buying up comics like that, for well over listed value, hoping to have comics worth thousands within a few years, because no one knew how many were out there in decent to mint condition. I used the money for more comics, a new bike, and saved money so I had cash later. That money came in handy, when I was dating girls in high school, and I could take them to concerts, get us both a t-shirt, and stickers, while other guys my age were going to putt putt and a movie. Those comics, and some baseball cards were a great investment, snd I luckily was friends with the family who owned the comic shop in town. The woman who owned the store, gave me work, and she told me how the market worked, as well as when to sell certain things, because the bottom was about to fall out of the collectibles industry, in the 90’s.
@@CorbCorbin Well if Milius got Howard's Conan character correct I didn't notice really because I couldn't get past Swartzenhanger's German accent! (it should have been more Irish! ha, ha)
I mean, you cant go wrong reading the original R.E.H (Robert E Howard) Solomon Kane stories. You can probably finish one really quickly, I am sure their are places were you can read them online, but the paperback reprints go for pennies. Thier is a really great audiobook rendition of the first Solomon Kane story that I highly recommend ill link here: ua-cam.com/video/FJ7-Q_dwWIk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PulpHeroAudio hope this helps!
Most Kane stories take place in Africa, so it would be impossible to have them made into shows. Maybe if they replace the evil humans with lizard-men, or some other creatures.
"Men shall die for this" is the hardest line in written history.
Dude, _yes._ I knew I was in for a fun read when _that_ was the first line the protagonist has.
If they made a God loving, evil killing Puritan live action Kane series today, it would stand out like a nickel in a pan full of pennies.
There is the movie tho.
Viggo Mortensen
They did it was done in 2009 never seen it tho.
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@@JB-mb1ro Actually, that was James Purefoy who had played Solomon Kane in the movie.
Solomon Kane is so different than most modern Heroes of today. I wish there was a good adaptation or expansion of that character.
I heard rumors of a Solomon Kane animated series, though I am not sure how legit that claim is.
For now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll settle with the film adaptation.
@vee-bee-a they do have a film adaption. James Purfoy plays Solomon Kane
The Solomon Kane movie is underrated AF. A brilliant dark fantasy movie, I could see a TV series or animated series based on Solomon Kane
I literally just finished watching it a couple hours ago and enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would
I’d definitely love to see those same filmmaking team with a bigger budget, and freedom, to do a series, with the character.
Then we wouldn’t need so much origin in a movie, and instead tell it in short flashbacks, as we meet characters along the way.
Very much enjoyed it except the CGI fire monster at the end but as already stated, the film didn't have a big budget. I'm glad it was made when it was, Pete Postlethwaite was fantastic and is no longer with us while James Purefoy showed far too much testosterone for films made now.
The character depicted in the film is nothing like the character from the Howard stories. The movie may have been entertaining, but it wasn't Solomon Kane.
Huh, after seeing Caslte of the Undead I'm thinking it'd be cool if Solomon Kane was an ancestor to Prof. Abraham van Helsing, and that's why the Prof. knew about vampires and monsters.
Would be cool, like the descendant of one of Dracula's greatest foes returns to finish what his ancestor could not.
I grew up reading Howard and Lovecraft. Masters both!
Great childhood!
reminds of Vampire Hunter D
D was based visually on Kane, specifically Marvel Comics depiction of Kane. Chakan The Forever Man was also based visually on Kane.
Kikuchi based D's appearance off of Solomon Kane. He mentions it in the interviews in the end of his books
Liked the video. the world needs more of Solomon kane.
Couldn’t agree more!
Robert E. Howard created some amazing characters!
In the 1960's we had heroes that were mopey and confused. Spider-man, The Hulk, the Thing, the X-men, and Captain American when Stan Lee brought him back in Avengers #4. Marvel Heroes had the appropriate mood considering they were both shunned for their hero personas and for their civilian ones. This made them stand out way more than their DC Comics counterparts. If that kind of hero doesn't work for someone they can always just stick to DC, but in the 60's the mopey and confused heroes at Marvel outsold DC because the audience Identified with them. Then their was Spawn in the 90's who was really mopey and confused and at the time incredibly popular.
Spider-Man and the Hulk, yes, but the first issue of X-Men: fun in the combat simulator, saving a military base from Magneto, getting thanks from a general.
And the 90s also had Lobo. As for Spawn, him being an anti-hero mattered more than being mopey.
I haven’t read the Dracula Solomon Kane stories, but it sounds freaking badass. And hillarious, considering Van Helsing ripped of Solomon Kane. I wonder if they read the Solomon Kane comics, wanted to make a movie, but couldn’t, so they made him Van Helsing? Gonna get the comics. I already read all of the Solomon Kane prose stories.
You mean the Van Helsing movie, right? Because the Dracula book came out in 1897, Robert E. Howard was born in 1906.
Solomon Kane created in 1928.
I first discovered Solomon Kane reading the Savage Sword of Conan back in the day'/!!!
The movie a few years ago was okay, but you could tell their was way more potential there
Thank you sir. A few days ago I read Kull and I was wondering to buy this book as well. I know they made a movie. I didn't know that pulp is a short story. I learn something new today, thank you.
You're ending was beautiful, and to all my men of culture watching, I raise my tankard to you! Cheers!
Another great video Jan, really in-depth
Outstanding video thanks
I always enjoy learning something new - definitely gotta get my hands on some Solomon Kane ☺️
Well let me tell you're in for a treat. Robert E Howard was great author, cannot recommend him enough.
@@emporium-of-the-weird looking forward to a new adventure ! ☺️ Thank you for the tip and great work !!
Awesome character awesome video
1:19 "Pulp" the sort of paper the magazines used, not a "short story". Pulp paper is cheap and easier to mass produce, which made it popular with publishers during the Great Depression.
Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll probably have to make an update to this video as I got allot of stuff wrong.
@jan_review @jan_review I love the pulp era of storytelling. So much of our modern crime, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories were directly or indirectly inspired from the pulp era.
What's also interesting is this era saw an explosion of new writers that hadn't been seen before that point. Before the pulp era, most novelists were from the upper class.
It would be really cool if we got a Solomon Kane video game. I'm imagining that the gameplay would be a lot like the Witcher, and the combat would be like from Assassin's Creed: Unity.
I've started reading Solomon Kane several times and I could just never get into it.
Big fan of Conan though, got a big stack of the comics.
I recently got into into Conan proper, a fantastic character, whats your favorite Conan story?
@@emporium-of-the-weird Hard to say, I collected the comics piecemeal so there's a bunch of stories that I only have 1 or 2 issues of.
"The Book of Thoth" and "Weight of the Crown" are my favorites that I have the whole sets for.
I loved reading the short stories in the backs of Savage Sword of Conan comics, and listen to audio books here on youtube, I've made a playlist of Conan,Solomon Kane and Kull audio books, there great to listen to when your busy doing something and when going to sleep 😴 💤
Do you mind linking the playlist?
I'm not sure I would qualify "pulp fiction" as "mainstream media" when referencing any media pre 1994.
Great vid 👍
They Cybrarian makes some AWESOME Solomon Kane and Conan audiobook adaptations check him out
Great video
Just saw this video in Jan. '23. The 1st story you quoted Red Shadows was a story written by Howard the 2nd where Kane meets Dracula was not a Howard story but done by Marvel Comics. Marvel rarely got Solomon Kane right. Howard Chaykin worked, for a while. One off-beat artist did seem to get Kane & a Marvel/Kane story right. There was a movie some years back; but like the Kull movie in the '90's, we don't want to talk about that.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. The Dark Horse omnibus that features in the video was my first exposure to Solomon Kane and Howard’s work in general. I just assumed at the time that everything that featured in the Dark Horse omnibus were REH original work.
@@emporium-of-the-weird Your are welcome sir. I was an R.E.H. Fan(atic) through out the 1970's & early '80's. I first read the Kane stories via Centaur Press's Time Lost series. It was a small Co. that did reprints of old Pulp Era stories . Take care.
It’s d
Far better than the PG-13 Kull movie, but had even less budget.
It’s a character ripe for a series, but we haven’t even gotten a real Kull or Conan series, or movie, other than Milius’s Conan, in 1982.
Even that movie wasn’t very true to the Howard books, but Milius did get the essence of the character, and just structured a story of his own around it.
@@emporium-of-the-weird
Howard only sold 7 Kane stories, in his lifetime. So most of what’s out there, isn’t written by him. As the other commenter pointed out, some writers were better than others, but I’m more forgiving, whether Kull, Conan or Kane. I grew up collecting the Savage Sword of Conan, and then King Conan, which usually had Kull short stories, in the back. They had that killer art on the covers, with excellent black and white comics inside. I found them at various garage sales, in the mid 80’s, when parents or teenagers, were getting rid of their stuff, before leaving the nest. I made a lot of money for a 7 year old, buying boxes of comics for $10, then being able to sell many of them a few years later, for anywhere from 25 cents, to $500, for the most valuable comic I had acquired.
It was a Spider-Man with a first appearance by the Punisher.
It was in terrible condition, and maybe would be worth $750-850 now, over 30 years later. $500 was a lot for a ten year old. People were buying up comics like that, for well over listed value, hoping to have comics worth thousands within a few years, because no one knew how many were out there in decent to mint condition.
I used the money for more comics, a new bike, and saved money so I had cash later.
That money came in handy, when I was dating girls in high school, and I could take them to concerts, get us both a t-shirt, and stickers, while other guys my age were going to putt putt and a movie.
Those comics, and some baseball cards were a great investment, snd I luckily was friends with the family who owned the comic shop in town.
The woman who owned the store, gave me work, and she told me how the market worked, as well as when to sell certain things, because the bottom was about to fall out of the collectibles industry, in the 90’s.
@@CorbCorbin Well if Milius got Howard's Conan character correct I didn't notice really because I couldn't get past Swartzenhanger's German accent! (it should have been more Irish! ha, ha)
jan youve got something on your hands jan you need to get it off jan im living in your walls jan you need to tear your arms off jan
As much as I love Conan, I still put Solomon Kane above him.
Excellent video my dude!
Great video but forests of Transylvania? not in REH original stories. SK did wander in the Black Forest however
I have to entire collection of Comicbook
I REALLY want to learn more about this character and all of his stories. Any advice on where to look?
I mean, you cant go wrong reading the original R.E.H (Robert E Howard) Solomon Kane stories. You can probably finish one really quickly, I am sure their are places were you can read them online, but the paperback reprints go for pennies. Thier is a really great audiobook rendition of the first Solomon Kane story that I highly recommend ill link here: ua-cam.com/video/FJ7-Q_dwWIk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PulpHeroAudio hope this helps!
the Solomon kane movie was ok
I recommend Hillbilly by Eric Powell.
Never heard of this sob. Looks pretty bad ass though.
Most Kane stories take place in Africa, so it would be impossible to have them made into shows. Maybe if they replace the evil humans with lizard-men, or some other creatures.
Or they could accurately represent African slaver tribes which were prolific at the time.
@@Quincy_MorrisOr the Arabic slave trade.
Hah liked at 666
A positive representation of traditional Protestant Christian morality?
Impossible…
Sorry but u do this so slowly. I think I enjoy Rurouni Kenshin better to be honest or Samurai Jack.