Aw hell yeah! *kicks over amplifier* NOW, WHO’S READY FOR A REMAKE OF ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK! *feedback squeal, shuffling feet* …Guys? Hey, where’s everyone going?
Breck Eisner, who directed Overtures’ remake of “The Crazies,” is in negotiations to helm the remake of “Escape From New York” for New Line.
The remake has been a top priority for the company, which picked up the rights in March 2007, with Gerard Butler attached to star and Ken Nolan writing the script.
The project then veered into development hell, losing Butler but amassing a penal colony of writers [*mouthfart*], among them Jonathan Mostow and Allan Loeb, and collecting then losing director Len Wiseman.
Eisner’s boarding should bring “Escape” back on track as New Line, sticking with the Loeb draft, tries to mix an origin story for anti-hero Snake Plissken and merge it with the story of the 1981 original.
That film was set in a futuristic 1997, when Manhattan had been turned into a giant maximum-security prison. The U.S. president’s plane crashed on the island, and Plissken — incarcerated for robbing a federal reserve bank — was coerced into a rescue mission. [HeatVision]
Well I for one think it’s the perfect time for a condemned-guys-fight-for-their-survival movie. I can’t remember the last time I saw one of those. I mean, I know they’ve made like 27 of them, I just can’t remember the last time I actually bothered to see one.
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They’re filming in Detroit, right?
Seriously, fuck this.
I see that Gerard Butler is continuing his crappy romantic comedy/crappy action movie flip-flop schedule.
Way to reach for the stars, Gerry!
The only place my snake wants to eckscape from is these Sean Johns, girl.
Aww, hell nah… keep Russell and have him and escape from the scorched earth that is Goldie Hawn . Anything but this.
BUT WILL IT BE IN 3-D!!!!? I NEED TO KNOW, DAMMIT!!!!
A Plissken is like a Blumpkin where you pee in her mouth first, right?
I thought he was dead.
Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison? I’m assuming that only the worst, most disgusting degenerates from society are sent there?
I smell a plot treatment for SATC3!
Kelly Lebrock: And that wasn’t the last time Seagal asked me to “infiltrate his penal colony”…
not sure if I’m horrified or happy abt this…the original is so fraught w/ comedic GOLD
I hope they are able to keep up with current cultural trends and include this internet thing that was so popular in Death Race and Gamer.
If this prison continues to serve Sabrets boiled in 9 day old water, lock me up!
Kurt Russell and John Carpenter or GTFO
Bob Hauk: We need you Lobster Dog, you’re the only sonovabitch who’s got what it takes to get the President out of there.
Lobster Dog Plisken: ARF!
Bob Hauk: I thought you might say that, so we’ve secretly injected you with microscopic explosives that something something plot device 24 hours to complete your mission etc.
Lobster Dog Plisken: ARF! ARF! GRRRRRR
Bob Hauk: Heh heh, You got no choice now Lobster Dog. It’s do or die time, DO what I say or DIE. I suggest we skip on to the outfitting of equipment montage set to a military drum beat with fast cuts of guns and knives being placed into various holsters and some science lady giving you a device that won’t pay off until the third act.
Lobster Dog Plisken: ARF!
Bob Hauk: Clock’s ticking soldier.