Remake Fever Update: Len Wiseman directing Butler’s Snake take
Way to go, Diesel Jeans! Guess all the roofies and hair gell paid off.
Len Wiseman, the Beckinsale-diddling director who turned out a perfectly solid DIE HARD 4quel this summer, has signed on for the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake wherein Gerard Butler will attempt to portray “Snake” Plissken and fail miserably.
Wiseman also did solid work making the rather plot-deprived UNDERWORLD films entertaining, so his involvement is a bit of reassurance that the ExNY re-do won’t suck donkey balls completely. No word on how true to the original Wiseman’s gonna be. Of course Snake won’t be able to land the plane on the World Trade Center after those box cutter wielding Arabs ruined it for the rest of us. If this remake’s lame, surely Al-Qaeda is to blame?
ESCAPE remake will be producered by Neal Moritz and exec produced by Ori Marmur under his surely ironic Original banner. Frederic Sichler of French Carolco-library-pirates Canal Plus will also get a vanity credit (since C+ holds remake rights) as will the O.G. himself, John “not the guy who murdered Bob Crane” Carpenter. Despite all my shit-talk, if John Carpenter does the score, and does it entirely on old Moog analog synths, I’m in 100%, FULL ON.
Tags: Escape from New York, Len Wiseman, Gerard Butler, remake fever
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