This is going to piss people off.
I don’t know if it’s because nothing surprises me anymore in the world of remakes, that nothing truly is sacred as far as property goes (intellectual or otherwise), or that nothing could do the Escape from New York franchise worse than Escape from L.A. did.
Breck Eisner is now the director of the requel/preimagining/cremake of John Carpenter’s seminal Escape from New York.
As many of you know, Breck Eisner and I are legendary cohorts in the interview world, as our discussions on his The Crazies remake literally changed how people do interviews in its fabulousness. It was transcendent in ways beyond mere human communication and transcripts of it have been sent into space in capsules as a token of mankind’s progress as a race.
It’s very weird to imagine someone other than Kurt Russell playing Snake. In fact, considering the character’s history before the film he could still play the character and actually probably add a bunch of real nuance. The guy’s a great actor and his face gets more and more interesting over time. Dark Blue was only a few years ago and showcased that the guy can still crank it up. But of course they’re going to find someone new. Luckily Chris Pine’s too busy.
I don’t have a suggestion. Gerard Butler was attached a while. He’d have been good. Law Abiding Citizen is not a very good movie but I love Butler’s work in it. He’s got the juice to play Snake but he’s off the project.
Plus they’re definitely going to go younger. How does Zac Efron look with a patch?
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Maybe not the most popular choice or biggest box office draw but how about Timothy Olyphant? Eisner just worked with him and he could pull it off IMO
Before everyone goes apeshit about idea of the remake skewing younger for Snake, let's remember that Embassy wanted Carpenter to cast Charles Bronson and Carpernter wanted to cast "younger" by bringing in a then 28ish year old Kurt Russell, who was mostly known for being a disney kid actor at the time.
Personally, I'd like to see Ben Foster do this. I think he'd bring a good, modern day take on Snake. Gerard Butler is a raging alkie asshole.
And also before people go apeshit, Capenter doesn't give a crap about his "legacy". The question is, what Carpenter film are they NOT going to remake? "Prince of Darkness", maybe? "Ghosts on Mars"? (Number of captias: 4)
I still say Josh Holloway from lost.
And Tom Waits as cabbie would be fantastic
"who was mostly known for being a disney kid actor at the time" and working with Carpenter as the guy who played ELVIS… jeez… your eating maggots Michael how do they taste.
So when are screenwriters going to start getting their due? Since actors are apparently not what make these roles iconic, it must be the people who created them, right?
Josh Holloway would be fun. Sawyer is practically an audition piece. Eisner isn't a great choice. The dude who did Harry Brown though…
They need to call me and let me rewrite this before they destroy it. Although it's probably doomed no matter what. As far as Snake, I think they need to go young and not obvious. Is Scott Porter from Friday Night Lights any good? He's roughly the same age as Russell was and he's got the strong jaw and is able to get the heavy beard thing going on.
"I heard you were dead?" I just hope that this project ends up that way.
"I swear to God Snake" this pisses me off.
I am going to retreat to my cubicle and weep now
Let's see how he lost that eye!
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