Escape from New York set for remake – Kurt Russell isn’t happy March 26, 2007
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Another SciFi classic is set for a remake – though some might argue whether or not John Carpenter’s 1981 Escape from New York is classic.
One this is for sure – Kurt Russel’s performance as Snake Plissken makes the movie.
None other than 300’s lead Spartan Gerard Butler is set to take the role of Snake in the remake set for a 2009 release.
Apparently that hasn’t left poor Kurt Russell very happy. In fact multiple news outlets are reporting that he’s quite peeved.
Asked if he’d do a cameo in the new version, he said: “F–k that! I am Snake Plissken! It’s like Sean Connery always watching someone else do their version of Bond.”
Russell isn’t the only one that isn’t happy about the remake, there is already a petition online to Stop The Escape From New York remake.
Just in case you missed it 26 years ago…here’s the 1981 trailer…(trailers sure did suck back then).
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