Rutger Hauer the man who, aside from being honored in the Netherlands with his own sex-scene postage stamp, is famous for playing the blind Zorro in 1989’s Blind Fury, as well as appearing in Batman Begins, and playing crazed murderers in 1982’ Blade Runner, and 1986‘s The Hitcher, is soon to be back on our screens in another seemingly psychotic role, playing the titular character in Jason Eisener’s ‘Hobo With A Shotgun.’
It’s taken a while for the film to really get moving; as it only came to fruition after winning the South by Southwest Film Festival’s fake exploitation trailer contest back in 2007, and has taken writer John Davies three years to flesh out into a full, feature length, treatment, which is due to be released sometime next year (although there’s no official date at this time); but now that filming has started (it began a few weeks ago in Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) it has the potential to be a very interesting movie.
Hobo With A Shotgun is going to be a gore-action-comedy, and is a film that Rutger Hauer is saying “is an ugly movie”, because they’re “not trying to make anything pretty” and “not trying to charm anybody”; it’s a brutal film about a hobo who becomes trapped in the chaos of a new city, ruled by a ruthless crime boss, and infested with armed robbers and corrupt policemen, all of who this particular hobo feels it is his duty to introduce to his own style of street justice.
Despite being “intimidated at first” director Jason Eisener (Treevenge) is very pleased to be working with Hauer, as he’s “never worked with someone who’s had so much experience”, and as the man who brought John Ryder to life is back as a murderous hobo with a grudge, and everyone is “having a blast making this film”, it has the potential to turn into a real stunner.
