Brian Damage
03-22-2007, 02:41 PM
New Line Cinema has 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 says. “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."
“I don’t know that it’s a remake,” Carpenter says. “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."