Last week we reported that New Line Cinema had won rights to remake Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. John Carpenter believes the new movie might actually be a PREQUEL.
“I don’t know that it’s a remake,” Carpenter told SuicideGirls.com. “I think it’s a lot about Snake before he gets to New York.”
And John would know. As an executive producer on the new movie, he has read the screenplays.
“My main involvement is I read the scripts and make sure the character is the same character that we wrote originally. I think that would be cool. My other main involvement in this project is to extend my hand and have a check placed in it.”
Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who must rescue the President of the United States from an inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan. The film was set in a dystopian then-future 1997. Kurt Russell originated the role.
Carpenter also speculates that the Snake Plissken character will “probably be reinvented for his time. But we’ll see. I don’t know if he will be mullet-less or with the mullet.”
March 21st, 2007 at 12:52 pm
So will Gerard Butler “keep” his Scottish brogue or try to imitate an American one? Will he try to sound like Kurt Russell did (who altered his voice to sound like Clint Eastwood)? Will Butler wear the eye patch? I’m sure the Gerard Butler Fan Club wants to know (well, all that and whether he’ll be wearing tight leather pants).
August 13th, 2007 at 6:28 am
butler can do the gun fighting but the biggest con on him playin Snake is that the voice is 50% of the charecter if you f**k up ” Call Me Snake” you will piss off the whole fan base who is gonna be in theaters just in case it does not suck.
the eye patch is a must and so are the commando pants and coat i wonder who will play the lesser roles lee van cleef was a great fit and did great as the warden
whose the duke goona be
September 4th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
this could be amazing. or it could make me wanna slash my wrists. but as someone already said, WHOS GUNA BE THE DUKE?
October 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Who’s gonna be the duke?
You can’t meet the duke,no one gets to meet the duke!you meet him once and then you’re dead!!!!!
I’m ot sure about this remake,watched the original too many times.i’ll give it a go when it comes out .Like the guy said he’d better practice his line.i can see him now in front of his mirror chanting”call me snake” to himself and getting in totally wrong