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Gerard Butler as Snake Plissken?
My apologies for the lack of updates today… but its been nutty busy. .. did have a chance to see “300” though. What did I think? Well, it was underwhelming and once you got past the gimmicky look of it… there wasn’t a lot left to hold your attention. ..However, it’s definitely worth checking out.. if only to see just how friggin’ marvellous the filmmaking technology of today is becoming. I guess you can tell… I’m a little torn. Let me sleep on it.
I will say though, Gerard Butler is probably – David Wenham seemed to be playing little more than ‘Diver Dan’ with Muscles – the best thing in it, next to the effects, but tell me…
…..does he really need to be fuckin’ SNAKE PLISSKEN!?
That’s Kurt Russell’s role. Tell me it isn’t?!
Yep, They’re remaking “Escape From New York” now (what next!) and have tapped Butler to play eye-patched renegade Plissken.
Nothing against Butler, but c’mon… having someone else play Plissken is like well, having Vin Diesel take over from Schwarzenegger as the T-800; Brad Pitt take over as Ethan Hunt.. Or Brian Bosworth playing “Rocky” in the next sequel. It ain’t right.
The remake is being produced by Neal Moritz (“XXX”), says Variety, and written by Ken Nolan (“Black Hawk Down”). Apparently a bunch of studios are fighting to produce it.
If you wanna do another “Escape” movie… do the long-planned “Escape from Earth”… get John Carpenter back to direct… and, for the love of god, get Kurt Russell back to play Snake. He ain’t that old (and really, what does it matter? Snake can age, just as Indiana Jones can) and after “Grind House”, Russell’s star is going to skyrocket again.
Consider it. Please. Bury this blasphemous redo idea.
