Gerard Butler to Escape from New York?

by Matt Holmes

ken.jpgWord is they are remaking another John Carpenter classic. This time it's the 1981 sci-fi action movie Escape from New York which starred Kurt Russell in his coolest role to date as Snake Plissken and the legendary Lee Van Cleef. Scottish actor Gerard Butler is being lined up to star as Snake in the remake. More from Variety... Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who's charged with heading into the inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan to liberate the U.S. president. Now, Escape from New York is far from a perfect film but it's uber cool and Kurt Russell's performance is something that can never be replicated, no matter how good this Gerard Butler is. We can presume that this remake will have a far bigger budget than the $7 million Carpenter had to make his original. How far in the future will the film be set? Who is going to direct? Variety aren't telling us anything at the moment. source - variety

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.