Escape From New York Remake: 10 Actors Who Should Play Snake Plissken

Maybe it’s her height, but there’s something about Charlize Theron that makes her ill-equipped to play romantic leads and damsels in distress. She was perfectly forgettable in the perfectly forgettable Sweet November, but cast her as a real-life serial killer and you’re talking Oscar.

From 2 Days In The Valley to Mad Max: Fury Road, she’s played femme fatales, treacherous molls and cyber assassins, although comedy probably isn’t her thing. Most people reading this probably aren’t fans of her Razzie-nominated performance in A Million Ways To Die In The West, and how many of you remember her from Woody Allen’s The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion?

This is a good thing. Action heroes require mystique, not a fusillade of unfunny lines. When characters break silence to deliver recycled zingers, they turn into parodies of themselves. Ask anyone who’s seen Terminator Genisys.

If you doubt she could pull off the Plissken role, just watch the trailer for Atomic Blonde, which opens with her fighting two guys in one long take.