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  1. 13-Mar-2007 #1
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    Latest remake news... "Call me Snake!"

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

    Hot off the socko bow of "300" this past weekend, star Gerard Butler is at the center of a package that CAA began shopping Monday for a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 actioner "Escape From New York."

    Neal Moritz is attached to produce, with "Black Hawk Down" scribe Ken Nolan penning the screenplay.

    Several studios are battling for the pic, mostly because the $70 million launch of "300" signaled the arrival of an emerging action star in Butler. A deal is expected to be made this week.

    Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who's charged with heading into the inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan to liberate the U.S. president.

    Kurt Russell originated the role and reprised it in the 1996 sequel "Escape to L.A."
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    this film must NEVER get remade. It's one of the few classics that we have left! I swear, remaking films is gonna kill the industry. only in a few cases can a film be remade. Escape from New York has nothing wrong with it, thus, it shouldn't be remade!!!!!!!!
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    $20 says Zack Snyder is tapped as director.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    $20 says Zack Snyder is tapped as director.
    He's working hard on getting "The Watchmen" to the big screen. I'm thinking the studio will try to do EFNY as fast as possible and put some random music video director on it just to get it done. Then it will turn out like McG's "Charlie's Angels" or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman311 View Post
    McG's "Charlie's Angels" or something.
    I've still not forgiven my other half and her friend for taking me to that pile of pubescent pooh!

    I'm so glad I added this emoticon --->
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    I just want to know why they couldn't make John Carpenter's Escape From Earth? Sure it would probably be a lot like Escape From LA, but at least it wouldn't be a remake.
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    why?, just...why?, god leats these frikkin retards all get fired so the remakes firggin' stop

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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    we need the emoticon that beats it's head off a brick wall


    Yeh! It's bloody annoying we don't have that one!!
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    oh..
    i am now numb to the ignominy of discovering an iminent crappy remake of a movie i hold dear...so many times has it happened now...
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    Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country.
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    next up on the hollywood remake list:

    the goonies
    back to the future
    the addams family
    jurassic park
    the terminator
    ghostbusters
    nightmare on elm street
    clerks
    trainspotting


     
    .....kidding, wonder if anyone had a heart attack then, most likely bassman what with the ghost busters inclusion

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  14. 14-Mar-2007 #14
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    The uncanny thing is that the first two are probably very much in the works. They've been talked about for long enough.
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