Nieuwe details omtrent Escape from New York
Geplaatst door speed op February 14 2010 15:35:19
Snake Plissken komt terug en hij is nog steeds een "bad-ass"
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De site Vulture heeft nieuwe details te pakken gekregen omtrent de remake van John Carpenter's klassieker, Escape from New York. En voor wie schrik heeft dat Snake Plissken een pussy zou worden, Carpenter heeft contractueel laten vastleggen dat hij altijd een "bad-ass" moet zijn:
We learned that in order to land the rights, New Line had to sign a contract with John Carpenter stipulating, among other things, that Plissken "must be called 'Snake'"; "must wear an eye patch"; and that he would—and we're not making this up—"always be a 'bad-ass.'"
De studio lijkt eindelijk begonnen zijn met werken aan de remake:
New Line Cinema is quickly moving forward with plans to remake John Carpenter's 1981 dystopian action classic Escape From New York, thanks to a rewrite from Allan Loeb, the man who rescued the Wall Street sequel from development limbo over at Fox. A big reason for the fast track was creative: Loeb nailed the humor in Plissken without slipping into camp, and he changed Snake's rescue-mission target from a president to a female senator, thereby upping the banter quotient.
But just as big a factor was economic: They found a much cheaper way to turn Manhattan into a giant prison.
In the original, set at the end of World War III, New York City was a husk of itself after being turned into a giant prison, but that kind of destruction gets pricey.* So in Escape 2.0, the Big Apple that the as-yet-uncast Snake Plissken is dropped into will be geographically undesirable, but intact: This Manhattan was evacuated and turned into a privately run penal colony after the detonation of a crude radioactive dirty bomb on the outskirts of the city.