Escape from NY remake casting

[KnightAsylum]

From the CBR website...
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ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

Breck Eisner discusses with Movieweb the possibily of Timothy Olyphant taking on the burden of Snake Plissken. "Creatively, he would be great for it. We have not yet discussed internally within the studio who will play Snake Plissken. There are many factors that go into those discussions. First and foremost, obviously, is the creative one. We can't make the movie unless we get the perfect Snake Plissken, and that's a tall order. There are very few guys that could do it. He would definitely be one of the guys who could. There is no question about that," says the director.

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

"The perfect Snake Plisken"? Good lord, why is Hollywood doing this crap. Leave it alone.

 

[Solo4114]

I think Olyphant could actually pull it off. Not sure it's worth doing, though.

 

[Howard]

Leave it.
'Call me Snake.'
There's only one.

However, I can see the concept could be given a superb update - with loads of CGI, perhaps the odd cameo - it could be a real race of a show, paced much faster than the original - you wouldn't have time to get to know the characters, you'd be too caught up with the sheer speed and intensity...
Hold on.
Nah.
Leave it.

 

[Russ257]

I think Kurt could still pull it off

 

[sithmasterjedi]

I say lave it too but if they're gonna reboot I'd like to see Josh Holloway

 

[Larry Young]

If they sign Olyphant, my wife will go see it with me.

 

[micdavis]

I have no idea who they are talking about.

Tim who????

 

[Lord Boron]

I liked Olyphant in Deadwood, but this is movie that does not need to be made. If they are going to remake movies, take a bad movie and make it good, but the trend seems to be take a good movie, and make it bad.....in 3D of course.

 

[Larry Young]

I liked Olyphant in Deadwood... /QUOTE]

He's pretty good in Justified, too, although you can make the argument he's playing the same character.

 

[CB2001]

They should get this guy to play Snake, as he does a good job in this fan film: YouTube - Escape From New Jersey (A Snake Plissken Fan Film)

 

[Solo4114]

I think Kurt could still pull it off

This.

Seriously, make a sequel. Put Kurt in it. He's still got the ability to play the part. If he doesn't want to, WALK AWAY.

 

[Clutch]

Has this trend in movie remakes been going on since movies were first made or is this a recent thing? Like did the generation before me experience all this remake crap?

BTW, I thought Escape from LA sucked.

 

[Lord Boron]

Has this trend in movie remakes been going on since movies were first made or is this a recent thing?

It's always existed in one form or another. Ben Hur was remade from a 1925 silent film. But they were few and far between. It's gotten a little out of hand these days.

 

[Solo4114]

I think Kurt could still pull it off

It's always existed in one form or another. Ben Hur was remade from a 1925 silent film. But they were few and far between. It's gotten a little out of hand these days.

The Maltese Falcon is another remake, as is The Wizard of Oz. The key difference is that these were more often films based on novels, so the interpretation of the novel made the film less a "remake" and more of just a new interpretation.

So, it'd be more like the multiple different versions of Hamlet that have come out over the years. none of those are true "remakes" of the previous films, but rather are reinterpretations of the source material.


The current "remake" craze, however, I do NOT think existed in any comparable form. You had films that were influenced, certainly, or films that were "homages", and you had plenty of "trends" in film (IE: the "road movie" trend, the "satanist movie" trend, the "star wars knockoff" trend, the "sword and sandals" trend), but those weren't remakes.

Remakes are, in my view, driven by MARKETING DEPARTMENTS. The goal is to take an otherwise ho-hum nondescript film and shoehorn it into a pre-existing intellectual property. This lets you instantly capitalize on familiarity, so the movie is now less of a "risk" for viewers. After all, you grew up loving Land of the Lost/S.W.A.T./The A-Team/Starsky & Hutch/Charlie's Angels/G.I. Joe, etc., etc., etc. And if you didn't, hey, so much the better. It's a brand new film but with a name you may have heard of before!

Hollywood is risk-averse. They HATE risk. They know that older viewers are more discriminating, but they also know that they can trade on familiarity to get them in. They follow trends, and know taht the "80s are hot now" the way the 60s were "hot" in the 80s, and the 70s were "hot" in the 90s. They also know that kids will go see the movie if you can make a cool trailer for it. All of these techniques let you capture the widest market possible. The oldsters who have nostalgia for the product, the kids who'll watch anything, and the folks who dug the trailer.

It's a lot easier than rollin' the bones on a new property, with unproven popularity/familiarity. Remakes essentially get to do the same thing that a sequel does: it's more of the same, but a little different too. they're the non-sequel sequels, in a sense, or they're totally new for your primary demographic.



Meanwhile, potentially interesting scripts and ideas are dying on the vine or returned to sender. Grand, ain't it?

 

[micdavis]

Boy, reduce risk in your investment. That doesn't sound smart at all.

Once again some of you folks keep thinking Hollywood is about "art". It ain't. Get over it.

VERY rarely is it about the "art".

 

[Solo4114]

I could give a crap if it's about art or money. What I'd like is quality. I don't see why quality and money are mutually exclusive.

 

[micdavis]

Go work in Hollywood for a month.

 

[terryr]

You have a bunch of money grubbers trying to make artistic choices. Good Luck.

But What About The PANTS?

 

[SITHcamaro]

Don't remake the bloody thing, just let Carpenter make the Escape from Earth he wanted to write.