The Punisher, More for Post-Apocalyptic Tribes of October

Ray Stevenson, Jaime King, Stephen Moyer, Robert Duvall, and James Caan have signed up for Philippe Martinez’s post-apocalyptic thriller “Tribes of October”, says The Hollywood Reporter. Stevenson, of course, is a former castmember of HBO’s Rome, and recently assayed the part of the big-screen Punisher, replacing Thomas Jane. The film, er, didn’t do so well, but Stevenson has now moved on to, hopefully, a cooler sounding title.

THR says the plot goes something like this:

“October” is set in a future in which New York has become surrounded by an endless desert plagued by heat storms, and the city’s technology is such that nothing made after 1960 works any more. In this environment, a detective (Stevenson) goes after a Mafia don (Caan) who is going after the remnants of the NYPD, led by Duvall. The detective is simultaneously searching for the love of his life (King). Moyer plays a cynical and street-smart detective.

Okay, I don’t know about that. I was excited when I heard “post-apocalyptic”, but now they’re talking about cops, mafia “dons”, and detectives. WTH? That’s not very post-apocalyptic. Sounds more like “The Godfather”. That was set in the ’50s, too, right?

Anyways, we’ll see how it goes. This being the first description of the film, maybe there are some tweaks there that would make it more post-apocalyptic and didn’t come across.

Below: Jaime King.