ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ratner Escapes from Escape from New York

Ratner Escapes from Escape from New York

Butler caresses eyepatch, weeps softly.

by Jeff Giles | October 30, 2007

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Well, that didn't take long: Just a little over three weeks after the rumor mill started spinning about Brett Ratner taking over for Len Wiseman as director of the Escape from New York remake, IGN Movies reports that Ratner has told New Line "thanks anyway."

According to a report published at IGN yesterday, Ratner spilled the beans to a scooper for Ain't It Cool News:

A scooper for Ain't It Cool News claims to have chatted with Ratner at this past weekend's Savannah Film Festival, where Ratner was a guest. Ratner advised them that Escape From New York was still happening, but not with him at the helm.

At this point, Gerard Butler has got to be wondering whether signing on to play Snake Plissken was such a good idea. Maybe New Line should just hire Butler to direct the remake himself. Or, you know, scrap it completely.

Source: IGN Movies

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jacog writes:
on Oct 30 2007 06:27 AM

Or, you know, yeah... that.

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Shatter24 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 07:15 AM

This film could be given a modern facelift. Who to direct? Zack Snyder might be a choice if he wasn't making Watchmen. Or how about Alex Proyas (The Crow; I, Robot), he could make it look dark and desolate. David Fincher may be available (Fight Club), and he could do a good job with it. I even think Steve Miner should be considered (Halloween H20, the upcoming re-make of Day of the Dead), b/c he does pretty decent horror films, creating legitimate scares. I think any one of this could be given a shot and could do a good job.

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jacog writes:
on Oct 30 2007 07:19 AM

Halloween H20 was a stinker.

I'd throw a few points to Alex Proyas though. I loved Dark City.

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rgallitan writes:
on Oct 30 2007 07:33 AM

Yeah but the thing with anybody good, like Proyas, is that I would much rather see them working on something else.

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frogleg writes:
on Oct 30 2007 07:53 AM

Yup. And I don't think the studios are necessarily interested in these quickie remakes being directed by anybody expensive. I think the whole point is to make a bunch of money because the awareness is already out there, and do it on the cheap.

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Theace69 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 08:56 AM

They should Hire Hideo Kojima the maker of the MGS series he modeled Snake after Snake Plissken and look how those games turned out lol j/p people but really as long it s not Uwe Boll were all happy.

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Agro writes:
on Oct 30 2007 09:51 AM

Oh thank Christ.

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dracus writes:
on Oct 30 2007 11:51 AM

Scrap it. Having anyone but Kurt Russell play Snake would be like having someone other than Harrison Ford play Indiana Jones. If wasn't for Russell, Escape from New York would have been long forgotten since it would would only have been a B movie at best, although some say that's all it ever was.

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Bloody Mathias writes:
on Oct 30 2007 12:38 PM

A few directors might be available.

Stephen Sommers, Francis Lawrence and Michel Gondry are free.

Although, you'd need a $100 million budget for the first two and Gondry would make the weirdest action film you've ever seen.

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bigteddyt writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:38 PM

i think this movie is a horrible idea, but i'll go see it now just because brett ratner was taken off it.

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bobtom writes:
on Oct 30 2007 04:17 PM

just let John carpenter redo it himself

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Ruckas356 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 04:18 PM

why wouldnt kurt russel want to do this? What is a better movie for him to be in? Overboard 2! hahahaha i crack myself up! but naw for real he is a fool for not wanting to do this. He was good in deathproof, well the first half of deathproof untill he got his *** kicked by a bunch of bitches. How can someone else play snake. I just dont see it.

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Fritolaid writes:
on Oct 30 2007 04:23 PM

How about Hollywood stops remaking movies and starts making something original?

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 08:25 PM

there are no longer any original thoughts left on this planet... even what you just said isn't original. every remake thread has a statement like the one above.

face it people, everything you'll ever think, know, or say is just some recycled idea from somewhere else.

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 08:28 PM

the only way you can trick people into thinking you've made something original, is to have your influencing sources so varied and mixed that people don't necessarily make the connections. kinda like when writing an essay, you don't just plagarise one source, you take many, chop them up, editing them a bit, and there you have it, a unique and original piece of work.

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jacog writes:
on Oct 31 2007 02:35 AM

There are actually people that think Eragon was something original. I tihnk a lot of peeps, especially the younger crowd, are probably not quite as tired of rehashed crap as the rest of us... not yet anyway.

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Daniel Aaron writes:
on Oct 31 2007 04:06 AM

I personelly am a director navigating hollywood and its trust fund babies turned "super stars" or "great directors" which put out trash and i will say for one I would love to direct a remake of "Escape from New York" with the Glider intake how i will do that in modern times is still half the story and I will have the Duke and the only change will be this time a 98 oldsmobile but yet with chandalers for headlights F-k you all. I will bring Russell back. Pliskin would live the original feeling would survive and the Mannhatten will be a prison state. And you will walk out of the film as drained as you did after Aliens. Another ball pass. p.s not much of a speller but pacing and a good eye are not made by type or family connections

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Daniel Aaron writes:
on Oct 31 2007 04:09 AM

Life is hell, So is New York.

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