Variety is reporting that Gerald Butler has signed on to play bad-ass renegade Snake Plissken in the upcoming remake of John Carpenters Escape from New York.
Remaking Carpenter flicks seems to be all the rage in Hollywood these days, but so far the results have been split between the very good remake of Assault of Precinct 13, and the god awful remake of The Fog. I’m happy that Butler’s on board and all, but I’m not really sure why Escape from New York really needs a remake - the original still holds up great today.
It’s the same with Rob Zombie’s upcoming Halloween remake. The original is a horror classic that is just as scary today as it was in 1978. Over at AICN they’ve been saying that the early drafts of the script fell into the trap of attributing Michael Myers’ evil to some childhood trauma. Why Hollywood has decided in the last few years that they need to ruin great villains by explaining their evilness is beyond me (see Hannibal Rising). Michael Myers is just pure evil — he’s a force of nature.. he doesn’t need some lame backstory about abusive parents or whatever to make him interesting.
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