If you, like us, were left wondering just what Garth Marenghi co-creator Matthew Holness would do to follow Darkplace (and Man To Man With Dean Learner), wonder no more: he’s now plotting to turn his dark vigilante comedy short film A Gun For George into a full-fledged feature called The Reprisalizer.
A spoof of both ‘80s cop dramas and the likes of the **Death Wish **films, The Reprisalizer will follow the twisted acts of Bob Shuter, described as “a normal newspaper kiosk vendor until gangsters electrified his brother’s testicles by car battery.”
And, much in the same fashion that Holness portrayed both writer Marenghi and the character he played on the Darkplace series, Dr Rick Dagless, he’ll appear as both Shuter and his creator, writer Terry Finch. Whose books, by the way, promise Brutal Violence Or Your Money Back. And you can take that to the bank. Though they’d probably not thank you for it.
The film’s plot will also blend the storylines, with Finch telling “tall tales of brute force and rough justice from his isolated caravan, treading a thin line between reality and fantasy in an attempt to exorcise painful memories of his brother's death. When his ailing writing career grinds to a final halt, Terry’s compulsive and cathartic visions of violent retribution refuse to die with it, and a dark new chapter in the story of **The Reprisalizer **unfolds - where actions speak louder than words...”
Warp Films – which produced the likes of Chris Morris’ Four Lions, The Bunny And The Bull and fellow Marenghi creator/co-star Richard Ayoade’s Submarine – is backing the project, which Holness has written and is scheduled to shoot in Kent next year ready for a summer 2013 release.
You can check out Finch’s “official” site here. Jack Reacher would be proud. Also, violent.