Ratner decides he can't replicate ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK either!

Rumors say Ratner has left the project which may now be scrapped.

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

There's a rumor going around over at AICN that Brett Ratner has left the New Line remake of Escape from New York, which hopefully means at the very least the project has been scrapped as a pre-strike movie or at best the project has been shelved altogether.

Ratner was never the right man for the job. It needed someone who was capable of bringing a totally organic atmosphere and someone who has a proven track record of methodical direction. Their previous choice Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) was never the right man for this either. Personally, I can think of only a handful of people who could make this project anything near but worthy. Those names are:

Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Christopher Nolan and of course... John Carpenter.

If it's not one of those names then it's not going to work. Give up the ghost on this one guys, I'm sure you can find a new action vehicle for Gerard Butler to star in that doesn't have the title Escape from New York.