Caffeinated Clint
At the “Talking of Pelham 123” junket this morning, Director Tony Scott was gracious enough to update Cinema Blend on the status of his oft-rumoured “Warriors” redo.
The filmmaker says the new film will be set (and likely shot) in Los Angeles, which is “now the city of the future”.
And it won’t be so much a remake of Walter Hill’s classic film as it will be a reinterpretation. “If it’s the Warriors, it’s sunset and it’s quiet. I’ve got a whole different feel. I’m letting it breathe in a different way.”
As for the event that kicks off the movie, the killing of gag leader Cyrus, Scott is planning for some serious mayhem. “Then on the Vincent Thomas bridge, which is Long Beach, you have a thousand gang members up there, then Cyrus goes bang. It’s almost like 9/11, bodies coming off, it just goes ballistic. Then these guys have got to get from the Vincent Thomas back to Venice, through all these different gang territories. And it becomes anarchy. The gangs are meeting, they’re meeting for a truce. Just like they were in the original. But once that truce is broken, they go back to their turf. And our guys, the Warriors, they’ve got to get back to their turf, back to Venice.”
Both Coming Soon and Rotten Tomatoes also spoke to Scott about his plans for the flick.
“The Warriors” reboot, originally announced in 2007, will be produced by Van Toffler, David Gale, Michael Cole and Skip Chaisson of MTV Films and Scott Free Productions (Tony and Ridley Scott’s production house). John Glenn, J.H. Wyman and Travis Wright wrote the script.
