Underworld director Len Wiseman has reportedly exited Universal’s reboot of The Mummy due to scheduling issues.
“Producers Sean Daniels, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will begin searching for a new director immediately,” according to TheWrap.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
They’re talking about remaking Escape from New York again.
This has come up before, most recently in 2010, but also back in 2007 when (gulp) Len Wiseman and Gerard Butler were attached. But now Deadline says that Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures is joining with Studio Canal to create a rebooted franchise based on the John Carpenter classic. Silver wants a new take on the story and is planning a trilogy, which will start with an origin story, presumably of Snake Plissken. The search for a writer is already happening.
Call me crazy, but wasn’t one of the appeals of the original film and Kurt Russell’s Snake the fact that he was kind of mysterious? We knew a bit about his past, but there were enough gaps there that allowed us to fill it all in with our imaginations while he searched for Donald Pleasence‘s missing president in the mean streets of 1997 Manhattan. An origin story could defuse all that.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
Underworld and Total Recall director Len Wiseman has revealed that his reboot of The Mummy won’t be a period piece like the last three entries in the Universal franchise.
Speaking to Movieweb, Wiseman said, “The difference between the two, if The Mummy is to be the next movie for me, is that The Mummy is a completely different film. It is a modern day take. It doesn’t have anything to do with the Brendan Fraser films, and it is not a remake of any kind.”
Source: IGN Movies
