"Escape From New York" remake
 

Butler to Escape From New York
Source: Variety
March 13, 2007


300 star Gerard Butler is lined-up to star in a remake of John Carpenter's Escape From New York from 1981, reports Variety.

Neal Moritz is attached to produce, with Black Hawk Downscreenwriter Ken Nolan penning the screenplay.

Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who's charged with heading into the inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan to liberate the U.S. president.

Kurt Russell originated the role and reprised it in the 1996 sequel Escape from L.A.

Could be good, even though AoP13 wasn't great it was a decent remake while The Fog was unwatchable... The Thing and Escape From New York look like the next couple of Carpenter's to be remade. Wonder when In The Mouth of Madness is being redone since his whole library is being remade.

I could see him reprising his role in a third film but for a remake? I don't see that working.

Yeah, I don't think actors usually do remakes of a film when they starred in the original. Besides, the way Escape from LA flopped (I liked it though), I don't think Kurt Russell would get anywhere near an Escape from Wherever.

Though in Escape from LA, they talk about how Snake escaped from Cleveland, that could be cool, they never really tell you what happened there, only that Hershey was there.

I talked to Carpenter about this yesterday. He's really funny about it. He just smiled and chuckled. He really doesn't like to talk about his business.

He's so damn cool. I'll be back in his office this afternoon.

you bastard!

He's kicking our asses right now on a script my partner and I wrote. He loves it and wants to direct it, but first we need to rewrite. So he's reading our script aloud to us (20 pages a day - twice a week) and rolling his eyes at everything we wrote that's derivative.

Pretty brutal being called "lazy" over and over, but every few pages he hits a beat and stops and says "now that's good...that's fucking genius."

It's awesome and quite humbling learning from a master. And this movie is going to kick ass.

dude if john carpenter directs your movie..im gonna need you to send me your autograph, ok?:p

Escape from NY is now set up at New Line. It's gonna happen.

The Escape Will Happen at New Line
Source: Variety
March 16, 2007


New Line has won the bidding war for a remake of Escape From New York, with 300 star Gerard Butler attached and Neal Moritz producing through his Original Films.

Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan is attached to write the script. Executive producers include Original's Ori Marmur; Ron Halpern and Frederic Sichler of Canal Plus, which held the remake rights; and John Carpenter, who directed the 1981 original.

Butler would portray Snake Plissken, the convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic New York City -- which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison -- to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists. The original was set in 1998.

Kurt Russell played Plissken in the original film and again in Carpenter's 1996 sequel Escape From Los Angeles.

Snake Plissken is such an iconic character it's hard to imagine any one other than Kurt Russell playing him,but i'm naturally optimistic so i will wait and see and hope for something of note.

Gerard Butler certainly jumped into the juicy roles fast. I just heard an interview with Zach Snyder about Watchmen and he said the "Gerry" will have a role in that one too. He'd make a pretty good Comedian

"Escape" remake has director
 

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Len Wiseman Making Escape From New York
Source: Variety
August 15, 2007


Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) will direct New Line remake Escape From New York, which will star Gerard Butler (300) and be produced by Neal Moritz.

Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan is penning the script. Executive producers include Original's Ori Marmur; Ron Halpern and Frederic Sichler of Canal Plus, which held the remake rights; and John Carpenter, who directed the original 1981 film.

Butler is portraying Snake Plissken, the convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan -- which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison -- to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists.

The original starred Kurt Russell and was set in 1998.

Wiseman previously directed Underworld and Underworld: Evolution.

I guarantee you Butler will make a fucking horrible Snake.

This is....SPAH!..........ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK!






This idea is horrid.

Anyone else think its kind of weird that so many of John Carpenter's movies have been getting remakes lately?

Silly little nOOb, of course I'm not surprised.
JC is the fucking man. :cool:

I wasn't asking if you were surpirsed, I just think it sucks that people feel the need to remake so many of his films. Especially ones like The Fog which was a half assed movie (the 2005 one I mean.)

I also heard a rumor a while back that someone was planning on making a prequel to The Thing.

Weird, surprising....whatever. All of us here @ HDC are very aware that Hollywood is remaking anything and everything.
I was simply stating that "JC is the Fucking man". So, why wouldn't shitty film makers want to copy his style, and his films? :rolleyes:

Maybe they think of it as a tribute or maybe they think it'll bring in more money.Either way this film will really be horrible and like massacre said Butler will make a crappy Snake.

Escape From New York remake falling apart?
 

Don't know if it's karma or a curse or just a string of minor setbacks, but the recent plan to remake John Carpenter's classic Escape From New York has hit a few snags.

First, Director Len Wiseman (Underworld) was attached. He left the project and Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) was rumored to be taking his place...talk about going from bad to worse. Now "Rat" is off the project.

Gerard Butler, who was cast as Snake Plissken has now left the project due to "creative differences."

Hopefully the producers will get the picture that this film probably shouldn't be remade.

Good




leave Snake PlissKen the fuck alone.

New Line are still persisting with the remake, from what I know.

Jonathan Mostow, director of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, has been brought in to do a re-write of the script, with an option to direct.

This may still happen, after all.

I agree.

Leave him alone.

here here! you can't re-make the wheel

what we want is a proper sequel - carpenter direct, russell stars . . . but not that stupid LA cheezy crap - more of the gritty NY feel

which was, oddly enough, filmed in East St. Louis, Atlanta and L.A.

aaah movie magic

I hope it keeps getting pushed away untill there is a name change and it is no longer considered a remake!

I want them to make it. If it's good I'll watch and enjoy it. If it's bad then we'll get a cool Escape from NY special edition release for the original around the time the remake hits the theaters and new people will be introduced to the original. That's why I'm loving these remakes... except for The Fog. They just re-released the same ole' DVD.

what i want is a sequel to escape from LA but all 'road warrior' nasty and gritty with kurt russel but without all the cheezy satire from ELA. I think russell could be a great grizzled old warrior and just letting him play it straight would be awesome

You know,,,they can do some damn good things with FX these days. Instead of spending $200 Million dollars on an remake that nobody wants, how about
putting some money into a "Special Edition" of the original film. They can put in scenes of more destroyed buildings, more prisoners and what ever else they want to do. George Lucas did a good job on updated versions of the original "Star Wars" and currently Paramount Pictures has brought new fans into the fold by showing an updated FX version of the original "Star Trek" series.
Instead of remakes,I think this is the way to go.

Director for "Escape" remake?
 

Breck Eisner Making Escape From New York
Source: Heat Vision, Variety
April 23, 2010


The Crazies helmer Breck Eisner will direct New Line/Warner Bros. remake Escape From New York.

Gerard Butler had been attached to play Snake Plissken in 2007, but left over creative differences. Plissken is a convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists.

The 1981 original starred Kurt Russell and was written and directed by John Carpenter. A follow-up, Escape from L.A., was released in 1996.

The new version mixes an origin story for the anti-hero and merges it with the story of the first film.

The script was written by Ken Nolan, David Kajganich and Allan Loeb. Neal H. Moritz's Original Films and Canal Plus are behind the project.

Well, there goes any chance of this being watchable. Not that an Escape from NY remake had much going for it in the first place.

Don't worry. The rights have not been secured. This flick won't happen unless Carpenter says so.

That sounds like awful idea. Those special editions of Star Wars looked dumb as fuck. I prefer the original ones before they were tampered with.

Lucas is a moron about this. He completely destroyed his own film TXH 1138 by adding terribly done cgi to it that actually changed the meaning of the story. And there is no original release available.

Great news, but what makes you say this? They've been talking about it for years like its pretty much set in stone. Anything I can find seems like they have the go ahead?

Either way, nothing stopped him from letting his other works get bastardized.

I know John.

New Line and Warners Give Up on Snake Plissken


If eye patch-wearing antihero Snake Plissken is going to slither in a reboot, it won't be at New Line and Warner Bros.

They've allowed the option to drop on a remake of Escape From New York that they've been developing, meaning that the reboot of the John Carpenter-directed 1981 classic is up for grabs.

The original starred Kurt Russell as Snake, a tough convict dropped into a futuristic New York that has been turned into a post-apocalyptic maximum security prison. He's charged with rescuing the president (Donald Pleasence), who is held hostage by the prison kingpin (Isaac Hayes) after his plane within the city walls. Snake's offered a pardon if he's successful, but fitted with a lethal device that will kill him if he tries to run or misses the deadline.

New Line and producer Neal Moritz have been working on the reboot, most recently with The Crazies helmer Breck Eisner attached to direct, and a script by writers that include Allan Loeb and X-Men: First Class scribe Jamie Moss.

Joel Silver, Studio Canal To Reboot John Carpenter’s ‘Escape From New York’

http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/joel...from-new-york/