
You Can't Escape The 'Escape From New
York' Remake (UGO/Apr 09/2010) By
Christopher Monfette
I lived in New York for eight years, and with all the subway-madness
and crowded city streets, there are certainly moments
where
you say to yourself, "This is a city from which I'd
absolutely
love to escape." Fortunately, Amtrak's Acela service
is
very reliable and with two major airports only a short cab ride
away,
fleeing New York for a long weekend is a fairly easy
option.
Less so when the city has been designated a
post-apocalyptic
prison zone and you're trapped there in the
middle
of a citywide riot.
Such are the life and times of Snake Plisskin, perhaps the
baddest
motherf*@ker to ever wear an eye-patch... next to
Sam Jackson's
Nick Fury,
of course. And Collider's
massive interview
with producer Neil Moritz offers an update on the
status
of the much-discussed
Escape
From New York
remake.
"We have a script. We're out to directors right now,"
Moritz
informs
Collider.
"We've
had quite a few meetings with
directors
and there's a couple of actors that are really interested in playing Snake
and we'll see what happens."
He even confirms that
Gerard
Butler,
long rumored for the role, is
still
interested
in
picking up where Jack Burton once
left
off...
"Gerard
was really interested in playing it. He hasn't read the new script yet, so we'll
probably have a conversation with
him
once we get a director on board."
Curious to see if this one ever gets off the ground, but in
today's age of remakes and
re-imaginings, we suspect that it's
a
good bet.