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[Kill of the Week] That Damn Exploding Soccer Ball in ‘Death Wish V’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
Eli Roth’s Death Wish has the goriest death in the entire franchise, a scene that was heavily featured (albeit always cut off before the good stuff) in the new film’s marketing. Hint: it involves Bruce Willis, another guy and Bruce’s friend “Jack.” The goriest in the series, no doubt, but it’s Death Wish V that has the honor of having the silliest kill.
Charles Bronson played Paul Kersey for the fifth and final time in The Face of Death, released in 1994. Kersey, by that point a full-on slasher killer-by-way-of-vigilante-hero, took on the mob in the franchise’s fifth outing, a film that starred Land of the Dead and The Hills Have Eyes‘ (2006) Robert Joy as mobster Freddie Flakes.
Flakes, as his name suggests, has a dandruff problem. Kersey cures him. Forever.
In the film’s most out-there kill scene, Kersey rigs up an ordinary-looking soccer ball with explosives, operating it via remote control to blow Freddie’s head to kingdom come.
“I’m gonna take care of your dandruff problem for you,” a monotone Bronson quips, before hitting the kill switch. A dummy, and then a real stuntman, fill in for Joy.
Oddly enough, the clip features nudity, so be aware it’s NSFW!
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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