Len Wiseman Confirmed as Director of Escape From New York Remake
Last week there were rumours that Underworld/Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman had landed the Escape From New York remake, and now it appears that these rumours are confirmed to be true. Wiseman is in final negotiations to helm the new version of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic, which will star Gerard Butler (300) as Snake Plissken. The script was written by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and will be produced by Neal Moritz (xXx, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Evan Almighty).
How do I feel about this? Well I’d love to either rant or rave about the choice, but to be honest, I’m neither here nor there about it. I liked Live Free or Die Hard well enough, and I thought the first Underworld flick was alright… I guess I just don’t see what makes Wiseman the right guy for this particular job. To me, Escape From New York is not just a straight up action movie, and I sure hope they don’t turn it into one. But really my biggest problem is the fact that we have to see someone else in the role of Snake Plissken. This character is synonymous with Kurt Russell, and Gerard Butler has a rather unenviable task of making it his own. He’s going to have an even harder time when they get around to remaking the sequel, where he will be required to look bad ass while surfing with Peter Fonda. Only one man is capable of such things and his name is… Kurt Russell!
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I hate that douchebag Wiseman. I hate him to my very core. Not only is he boning my future and his current wife Kate Beckinsale, this guy just has an air of bunghole surrounding him. God dammit. I hope this movie fails. I will pray to Allah that this movie fails. Not to Buddha but Allah. Buddha would let him off lightly but Allah, hahaha, oh boy, allah would bring the smackdown on this douchebaggery that is Len. IF i ever saw him in the street i would walk up to him and say “Hey Len” and then kickbox his head in. Fuck you wiseman.
why do i hate him? because this guy, this fuckface is actually okay as a director AND he gets to bone Kate Beckinsale. C’MON!!! That’s just not fair. How can one man be allowed to handle such beautiful things like Beckinsales perky tits, tight puss AND the Die Hard franchise? How?!
sour grapes? you’re damn right i taste sour grapes. So sour, i would spit in his fucking face so his eyes burn. burn wiseman, burn.
Posted by Daniel on August 15th, 2007“burn wiseman, burn.”
awesome.
Posted by Henrik on August 15th, 2007It’s been my goal over the past two weeks to watch every John Carpenter movie (all I have left is Assault on Precinct 13 and Starman), so I’ve just recently watched both Escape films again. I’ve never really been a huge fan of the movies, but they’re fun to watch and Snake is a badass. This remake could be really good (and according to a review of the new script I read on AICN, it very well might be), but Len Wiseman’s got me a bit worried. In my opinion Live Free Or Die Hard wasn’t terrible, but most of it’s weaknesses can be attributed to Len Wiseman and Kevin Smith. I guess we’ll see how this movie turns out, and if it sucks we’ve still got the original, right?
Posted by Rian on August 15th, 2007I’m up for some burning. WHY are they DOING this?
Posted by Marina on August 15th, 2007When I met Kate Beckinsale a couple of years back at the premiere of Underworld…she did indeed have ‘perky tits’.
You would have shed a tear, Daniel.
Posted by Greg on August 16th, 2007You met her, Greg?
…Kate didn’t… happen to mention me or anything did she? *hopeful*
Posted by Daniel on August 17th, 2007say it isn’t so……..
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