New Line ditches Escape from New York remake
New Line has given up plans to make a remake of the hit science fiction movie Escape from New York. This is reported by the resource Deadline. The reasons for the closure of the project are not specified. The director of the new version for a long time was the creator of Madmen. Breck Eisner. He has repeatedly said that he is not going to literally repeat the original by John Carpenter. In his version, the center of New York will be turned into a maximum security prison not after the war, but after the explosion of the so-called `` dirty '' nuclear bomb. And the main character, Snake Plissken, will have to save not the US president, but a woman senator. Gerard Butler, Jeremy Renner, Timothy Olyphant and Tom Hardy were considered contenders for the role of Plissken at various times. Recall that Carpenter's movie was released in 1981. It starred Kurt Russell. The Topic of Article: New Line ditches Escape from New York remake. |
