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.

Be warned, as the rumor I’m about to share is about as reliable as putting the names of 100 actors on a giant bingo card and waiting to see which one your cat takes a dump on, but Hollyscoop “hears buzz” that Sam Worthington “may” be starring in Flash Gordon.

The role calls for Flash as a handsome polo player and Yale graduate, who travels to the planet Mongo, where it’s discovered that the meteors are weapons devised by Ming the Merciless, evil ruler of Mongo.

If true (note: it’s not true), this is all part of Hollywood’s plan for Sam Worthington to become to action movies what Taco Bell was to restaurants in Demolition Man.  (If you enjoyed that, please buy my book, SAT Analogies for Huge Nerds).  Cinematical says:
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Here’s the trailer for Breck Eisner’s The Crazies, which Timothy Olyphant decided to be in for some reason. It’s a remake of a George Romero zombie film that Overture CEO Chris McGurk said they made because they were trying to do something “clever and smart.” That’s right, he thought redoing someone else’s movie… about zombies… was both clever and smart.  I feel like even a Bedouin nomad or a Kalahari bushmen has already seen this movie like 20 times.

[via THR]

This is the trailer for The Crazies, Breck Eisner’s remake of the 1973 George Romero flick.  Breck Eisner is the son of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, and last directed the megaflop Sahara.  This one has Timothy Olyphant, and also zombies.  And that Mad Mad World cover song from Donnie Darko.  All in all it looks pretty good if you’re into movies you’ve already seen 12-15 times.  The Crazies, more like The Lazies, amirite?  (*wank wank mouthfart*)

So according to Variety, some dicklicker is doing a remake of George Romero’s 1973 film The Crazies.  In related news, George Romero has been remaking Night of the Living Dead since 1968.

Redo will be directed by Breck Eisner [Michael Eisner's son, shocking -Ed.] ; Romero will serve as executive producer.

“Crazies” revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply.  Overture CEO Chris McGurk and chief operating officer Danny Rosett felt it was a good fit for the company’s expanding slate.

“We’ve been trying to move into horror fare that is clever and smart,” McGurk said.

It’s times like these I wish my site had a giant buzzer sound.