Well it's now been confirmed.
The Hollywood Reporter say
Len Wiseman is in talks to direct the
Gerard Butler led
Escape From New York remake. I can't believe how well Wiseman's
Live Free or Die Hard went down with audiences. It was pathetic. It was lame. It was boring as hell. Had the lamest cliched plot in history. No characters. The worst villain in movie history, played by a shit actor. A crap third act which had no idea when to end and it was so over-the-top, I started to think I was watching an MTV parody of Die Hard. It aimed for the lowest intelligence possible and you people lapped it up like there was no tomorrow. You should be ashamed of yourselves and well are all going to suffer the consequences of movies like that for years to come. It really worries me that Die Hard and Transformers went down so well with people. It worries me for the future. If that's the baramoter studies are looking too for their flicks then we are all in trouble. Not least this Escape From New York remake. What you gonna do Wiseman? PG-13? More shaky camera work and awful colour scheme? Any hope that I had from the positive script reviews of
Ken Nolan's (
Black Hawk Down) work has totally been shattered now. Wiseman is just about on the other end of Carpenter's methodical film-making style. If different from the original is what they want... then it's different they are going to get. No word on whether the other rumor of
Wiseman directing Gears of War is true.