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I Know It's Only a Rockin' Rumor But I Like It

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (10)

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Most days I can’t find a reason to jump on a remake bandwagon, but today is the exception. I saw this news and it immediately sounded right; via bloodydisgusting.com comes the “premature announcement” that Jeremy Renner is set to take on the role of Snake Plisskin in Escape from New York. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t really see a need for a do-over. But if they’re going to make it, Renner is a great choice.

If any of you have made the grievous error of plodding through life without having seen this John Carpenter classic, your first course of action should be to quickly correct that mistake. Escape from New York is a dark and gritty interpretation of a future where Manhattan has been transformed into a maximum security prison, surrounded by a wall and booby-trapped exits. There are no guards and once a prisoner enters, there is no release. Well unless, of course, you are one Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) and you make a deal to rescue the President of the United States (Donald Pleasance), who got himself kidnapped and accidentally dropped smack dab in the middle of Manhattan. Plissken is a previous special forces soldier who is about to begin his new prison life after having committed a robbery. Instead he is offered the chance to rescue the President - in exchange for his freedom - and to insure he doesn’t abandon the mission, Snake is injected with some sort of wacky internal explosives that will blow him to smithereens if he doesn’t complete his mission within 24 hours. Russell was long-haired, eye-patched, gravelly-voiced perfection as Plissken, but I think Renner could take it to another level. He’s got enough of that crazy-eye thing going to make the character a psycho and Renner also brings an inherent intellectual quality that would add dimension.

Breck Eisner (The Crazies) is set to begin production early 2011.

(This rumor was originally reported by The Hollywood Cog on the Pajiba Twitter feed).









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Comments

NO NON NINE DON"T DO IT!!!

Posted by: BigTodd at November 8, 2010 5:35 PM

Is anyone else only focusing on Jeremy Renner's face and how they would like to be sitting on it right now? No one? Just me? Good. BACK OFF, BITCHES.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at November 8, 2010 5:51 PM

Do. NOT. Want.

-Frob

Posted by: frobme at November 8, 2010 5:53 PM

I thought it was “two in the pink and one in the stink?” that guy Renner is doing it all wrong.

Posted by: Pookie at November 8, 2010 7:02 PM

Nope. He's all yours Pinky McLadybits. I would not let such an orc-like grimace anywhere near down there (if that is what he is implying by flashing the Vs.)

The man was in that-movie-of-which-I-do-not-speak-of-and-has-no-such-affiliation-with-28-Days-Later-ABSOLUTELY-NONE!-DO-YOU-HEAR-ME! and therefore I shall never forgive him.

I would say something here like: "Oh, he can go around fucking up as many franchises as he is wont to do," but that's the LaBeouf's job.

Posted by: shanmarie at November 8, 2010 7:12 PM

Breck Eisner? That self-entitled little shit progeny of self-entitled big shit micro-manager Michael? Hoo boy.....

Posted by: TheUpsetter at November 8, 2010 7:21 PM

You know, since the very first moment that rumors of a remake began to circulate, this is the very first time that I have felt even a glimmer of interest in ever seeing such a movie.

Renner is great onscreen. He's sexy not by being good-looking but by being so real in a character.

He is the only person I can think of with an outside chance of doing Snake justice.

Posted by: Jerce at November 8, 2010 7:24 PM

I read somewhere Eisner actually wants Timothy Olyphant for Plisken. Although I like Renner, Olyphant would be awesome in the role. I'm a huge fan of fthe original but I think a combination of a prequel and remake would be pretty cool if made correctly. Which brings up my last point, NO EISNER.

Posted by: J.J. at November 8, 2010 9:40 PM

What is this you speak of, shanmarie? There is no such thing as a sequel to 28 Days Later. Nope. There sure isn't. THERE ISN'T. So he needs forgiven for nothing more than not being trussed up and imprisoned in my bedroom. I'll let him loose when Krasinski is sleeping or eating a meal or whatever.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at November 8, 2010 10:11 PM

Ha, my 14 year old son just had me rent the original Escape from NY, and now I'm not going to be able to watch it without thinking about this alleged remake. I like Jeremy Renner, but no. Hell no. A prequel, though...

Posted by: monica at November 11, 2010 6:44 PM