A new report suggests that Jason Statham and Tom Hardy will duke it out for the starring role of Snake Plissken in the upcoming Escape from New York remake.
According to New York Daily News, Gerard Butler and Jeremy Renner were originally thought to be in the running for the part made famous by Kurt Russell in the 1981 original, but it sounds like plans have changed since Studio Canal took over the project from New Line back in 2011.
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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
