“Death Wish” started his life in 1972 as a novel by Brian Garfield. The story followed Paul Benjamin, an accountant with sweet ways living in a dangerous district of the pre-Giuliani New York. He spent his adult life being a civic volunteer and trying to alleviate crime in the city, feeling that society was simply out of control. Paul makes a philosophical 180, however, when the criminals enter his apartment, fly his business, beat his wife to death and leave his daughter in a vegetative state. He immediately became bitter, angry and violent, evolving into a pro-political curator so quickly that he disturbs his conservative friends. Shortly after, Paul even goes down the street with a weapon in his pocket and begins to commit deadly acts of justice to vigilante.
The book ends with an attractive cop Paul in the middle of a murder … then letting him free himself. It is a controversy over the natural tendencies of humanity to blood revenge and the way in which liberal and sweet modes of thought deny this desire.
In 1974, director Michael Winner and screenwriter Wendell Mayes adapted “Death Wish” to the big screen. Charles Bronson played Paul, who is transformed into an architect named Paul Kersey for the film. He too sees his murdered wife and his daughter has been attacked, although the film seems much more ambivalent as to the feeling of growing vigilance of Paul. In the film, he revealed that he swore once against firearms because his father was fatally killed in a hunting accident. Despite this, Paul still chooses to become a vigilante, and the police refuse to arrest him … because crime rates are starting to lower as a result of his actions.
“Death Wish” caused four more and more terrible suites from 1982 to 1994, each with Bronson. In the 90s, however, no one seemed to take care of conservative revenge fantasies. However, the interest in the franchise was relaunched in the mid -2000s, with none other than Sylvester Stallone who plans to play Paul Kersey in a new film “Death Wish”.
Stallone was going to play Paul Kersey in a Death Wish remake
There were in fact two competing films “Death Wish” in the work in 2006. The announcement of Stallone of a remake “Death Wish” came at the same time that director James Wan began to work on “Death Striatine”, a film based on the novel by Garfield in 1975 of the same name, which was itself a series of “Death Wish”. The story tells that Garfield did not like Winner’s film and wrote “Death Striatine” as a reprimand. Wan, meanwhile, preferred the novel of Garfield’s suite to “Death Wish” film “with cheese (which were published by the notoriously Schlocky Cannon Group) and decided to make the” death sentence “(a film that has its defenders). The film with Kevin Bacon in the role of Paul Kersey, only his name was now Nick Hume.
In the midst of all this, it was announced that Stallone would play in a “Death Wish” remake. The following year, Stallone told Ain It Cool News that the film was a blow, with the actor-Filmaker who planned to play and make him as his follow-up of the success of “Rocky Balboa”. Stallone as the idea of a reluctant vigilante, torn between his need for human being and his tendencies to violent anger. It was something he played well in “First Blood” of 1982. He also had a new angle on Paul Kersey, which he described in Aicn as follows:
“Instead that the character of Charles Bronson is an architect; my version would make him like a very good cop who had an incredible success without ever using his weapon. So, when the attack on his family occurs, he is really thrown into a moral dilemma to proceed to the end of his revenge.”
It is a slightly different story, but which could have adapted well in the “Death Wish” mold.
After the remake of Stallone collapsed, Eli Roth renovated death
However, it seems that Stallone’s participation in the “Death Wish” remake was short -lived. Aicn then reported that the news from Stallone remaking “Death Wish” sparked a miner outcry, and he quickly abandoned the film. He also cited “creative differences” with the studio and was happy to move on to other projects. Instead, he brought his character from John Rambo back in 2008 with “Rambo”, a film that was a fairly notable success.
Meanwhile, the remake of “Death Wish” has remained in the hell of development. After “Rambo”, Stallone again expressed her interest in the project, although nothing is ultimately ultimately. Finally, in 2012, the remake was relaunched, this time with Joe Carnahan Writing and Di saying and Liam Neeson started playing. However, this iteration has also dropped due, once again, “creative differences”. It would take six years for the “Death Wish” remake to become a real thing, with Eli Roth in the end and Bruce Willis with Paul Kersey. In this version, however, the character was a trauma surgeon in Chicago. Again, however, Paul begins to contemplate blood revenge when his wife and daughter are killed / assaulted.
Roth’s “Death Wish” remake was very badly received and has only a 17% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes on the basis of 161 journals. Its box office performance was just as disappointing, the film having only $ 48.6 million with a budget of $ 30 million. We can only imagine that the version of Stallone would have been better, but I suppose that we will never know. Since 2018, there has been nothing else to bring Paul Kersey back on the big screen in any way. I think we are finally above it.
