DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:Much a like a the Dino, he did with a his a Kong, eh?
Every time I see that flick on the television on some dark Sunday afternoon, I ask myself 'How could you Dino?' But we still love ya

DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:Much a like a the Dino, he did with a his a Kong, eh?
yorrick brown wrote:rumor :josh brolin to play snake plissken?
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/12669
An interesting rumor popped up in French over at a website called SpielbergFilms.com who reports that Josh Brolin is in talks to slap on an eye patch and topline New Line Cinema's the Escape from New York remake as the new Snake Plissken. "A source close to the production (if so) has assured us that it is now Josh Brolin to be in the running to take over the role of Snake Plissken in the remake currently in draft New York 1997.” The movie took a turn for the worse when Len Wiseman walked from the project leaving it at square one this past October. Watch for official news soon.
so sorry wrote:yorrick brown wrote:rumor :josh brolin to play snake plissken?
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/12669
An interesting rumor popped up in French over at a website called SpielbergFilms.com who reports that Josh Brolin is in talks to slap on an eye patch and topline New Line Cinema's the Escape from New York remake as the new Snake Plissken. "A source close to the production (if so) has assured us that it is now Josh Brolin to be in the running to take over the role of Snake Plissken in the remake currently in draft New York 1997.” The movie took a turn for the worse when Len Wiseman walked from the project leaving it at square one this past October. Watch for official news soon.
moved from Random Movie News thread...
already scooped earlier today Yorrick, but your post has a little more info!
One of the great hopes at New Line Cinema was the remake of Escape From New York.
A potential franchise based on a beloved piece of source material, an attached lead with his star on the rise and a solid first draft script. Merrick wrote a passionate defense of the first draft, and I agree with pretty much all of his sentiments, though I hated the idea of giving Snake a laborious backstory that served to demystify him. There’s this strange fascination in Hollywood with origin stories, a sad biproduct of the Star Wars prequels and the glut of comic book movies.
I am lucky enough to possess both the “original” (if you can even call it that) Ken Nolan draft and the revision, credited to Jonathan Mostow and Sam Montgomery. The revision is dated November 3rd, 2007. This must have been the last pre-Strike draft, and with the demise of the old New Line Cinema, it’s anyone’s guess what the status of the project is.
The Nolan draft was brutal, epic in scale and retained all of the dystopian despair of John Carpenter’s classic, while updating the details in a respectful fashion. It wasn’t always the most elegant social commentary, but neither was the original. It was a grand middle finger to the establishment, with no need to be subtle. If you’d like to know more about the first draft, you can find Merrick’s review HERE).
Besides the script, I was also encouraged by the involvement of Gerard Butler, and when he left, I was sure it had to do with a serious creative disagreement. The old New Line was a decaying dinosaur of a studio, cranking out focus grouped bullshit on a regular basis. This latest version of Escape from New York would have been no different.
The thing that I loved about the Nolan draft is that it was not interested in bald-faced copying, but retained a certain spirit of “fuck the world” cynicism that the original was seeped in. That is, for all intents and purposes long gone with the Mostow draft. The most controversial aspect of this script jumps out at you early: The President is now a woman…and she’s someone we’re supposed to root for. I don’t even know if I mind the gender change that much. I don’t give a damn that Starbuck is a woman on Battlestar Galactica. You could make the Duke “The Duchess” and cast Fergie for all I care. Just get the essence of the character right. At no point do I feel Mostow and Montgomery get the original at all. By page 70, the President is spouting on about restoring civil liberties and freedom of the press, the evils of society. It turns into “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” and I begin to gag.
Spandau Belly wrote:I've always wanted DMX as The Duke of New York. I like Rhames and all, it wouldn't be a bad choice, but DMX brings all sorts of menace to a role. DMX just hasn't connected with good movies, but he has a natural charisma.
Fievel wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:I've always wanted DMX as The Duke of New York. I like Rhames and all, it wouldn't be a bad choice, but DMX brings all sorts of menace to a role. DMX just hasn't connected with good movies, but he has a natural charisma.
Being in jail is always a negative, too.
Claude Brodesser-Akner wrote:And more importantly, good ol' Snake remains largely the same. Legally, he has to be. We learned that in order to land the rights, New Line had to sign a contract with John Carpenter stipulating, among other things, that Plissken "must be called 'Snake'"; "must wear an eye patch"; and that he would — and we're not making this up — "always be a 'bad-ass.'"; So, if you ever catch the new Snake watching Grey’s Anatomy or complaining that the senator isn't "emotionally available," just know that somewhere, some poor development exec is about to be carted off to jail.
The Vicar wrote:The guy who directed The Crazies remake, huh? Too bad it sucked diseased balls. Does not bode well for EfNY, not well at all.
TheButcher wrote:The Vicar wrote:The guy who directed The Crazies remake, huh? Too bad it sucked diseased balls. Does not bode well for EfNY, not well at all.
Leave Michael's son alone.
The Vicar wrote:The guy who directed The Crazies remake, huh? Too bad it sucked diseased balls. Does not bode well for EfNY, not well at all.
papalazeru wrote:
Yes, but the escape from LA is alive and well.
Perri Nemiroff wrote:When asked whether or not the script is complete, Silver replied:
“No, no we’re not, no we’re not. I mean, it’s funny because we have a relationship with Studio Canal, which somehow ended up with the rights to that, and it has been floating around LA or at least in the development world for a long time.”
Right when we found out that Silver decided to commit to take on the challenge of producing the reboot, we also learned that he didn’t want just one new Escape from New York film; he wants a trilogy. Silver further explained:
“I always liked Kurt’s character, the Snake Plissken character, so I’ve always like that idea, but we kind of figured out a way to do almost a trilogy of that story.”
Previous reports have likened the first film of this potential trilogy to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but Silver broke it down further:
“There was a videogame that came out a few years ago called Arkham City, which shows how when Gotham became this kind of walled prison and how it became a walled prison. And they never deal with that in the story of Escape from New York, so part of our idea was to kind of see how the city became this walled prison and how the Snake Plissken character was a hero and how he became not looked at as a hero. And then, in the middle of the story, would be the movie that we, you know, previously saw about the President’s daughter goes down, he has to go in and get her. And then, you know, they did a sequel, Escape from LA, but I would like to then kind of find a way to have New York go back to a place that we’d like to see what it is today.”
Clearly Silver’s already got big plans for his Escape from New York series, but it’s also vital to point out that the project is nowhere near go-time yet. Silver noted:
“So there is a way to tell the story in three ways, but we haven’t got there yet and we’re just starting.”
Brendon Connelly wrote:The exact nature of New York in Escape From New York wasn't the point, it was just a backdrop-cum-MacGuffin. You could tell more or less the same story in any number of closed-off, urban environs. Nonetheless, Joel Silver and Studio Canal are planning to reboot John Carpenter's movies with a prequel story of how the Big Apple came to be a walled-off hellhole and then, if that works out, sequelise their prequel.
Presumably, the first sequel will echo the original film but any threequel would steer pretty clear of the genuinely oddball Escape From LA.
Deadline say that Studio Canal are financing development for the new series and looking for a writer right now.
It remains to be seen if the first film requires a Snake Plissken character, and Silver and Co. might do well to leave him out and duck the inevitable comparisons between whoever they choose and Kurt Russell for as long as possible.
The Thing do-over was a kind of prequel too. I guess it's either in vogue, or just Hollywood's best idea for how to follow John Carpenter.
Now, here's a game for you: what would you even call a prequel to Escape From New York?
Now, here's a game for you: what would you even call a prequel to Escape From New York?
Spandau Belly wrote:Now, here's a game for you: what would you even call a prequel to Escape From New York?
ESCAPE FROM NEW AMSTERDAM
Too easy!
Jeff Sneider wrote:Is mega-producer Joel Silver planning to take his long-planned “Escape From L.A.” reboot even further in the same “team” direction as “The Avengers,” “X-Men” and the upcoming “Justice League” movie?
A new report from popular sci-fi site Starlog claims that the most recent draft of the script, which has “always had a team dynamic to it,” has elevated several former supporting characters to “co-leads,” perhaps in response to the current blockbuster marketplace.
The screenplay is now said to find iconic antihero Snake Plissken flanked by returning mates Cabbie, a schizophrenic travel guide who serves as comic relief, and Brain, Snake's former partner-in-crime who left him to die after a botched robbery, as well as Mina, a war journalist who becomes a scavenger after being framed for murder and Gareth, the last surviving member of the President's security detail who harbors a dangerous secret.
While Cabbie and Brain were significant supporting characters respectively played by Ernest Borgnine and Harry Dean Stanton in John Carpenter's 1981 classic, the other two are new additions designed to form a team of heroes in the vein of Marvel's “Avengers” that will of course be led by Snake.
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