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HOLLYWOOD YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR! (Escape From New York Remake)

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http://www.thewrap.com/escape-from-new-york-remake-story-details/


So what do we know about the remake? Let’s start with these 10 things:

1. Snake Plissken’s real name.

Plissken in the previous two “Escape” films didn’t have a name, but now he does: He’s Colonel Robert “Snake” Plissken.

2. Our bad guy won’t be the Duke of New York.

Instead, he’s the lean, intensely charismatic Thomas Newton, the playboy heir to an agrochemical and biotech corporation. Five years ago, he decided to donate his entire fortune. Sounds like a good guy, right? He’s not.

3. The role originated by Lee Van Cleef will now be played by a woman.

The film will introduce us to CIA Deputy Executive Director Roberta Hauk.

4. New York City isn’t a maximum security prison.

Weird, right? Because New York being a prison was kind of crucial to the whole “escape from New York” concept. In the reboot, New York is breathtakingly lovely. Manhattan is the island we know, but with more towering glass structures and a high, undulating glass wall. The sky is alive with drones as serene as bees, and artificial intelligence controls all in the form of an ethnically ambiguous, cheery young woman called April. A small staff of technicians and researchers known as “Seers” monitor all.

5. The remake doesn’t start in New York City.

The original “Escape” film deleted the opening scene that showed how Snake Plissken was apprehended. The new version won’t. Its set in another major city, one not in the United States.

6. The film imagines a world in chaos.

Globally, one in every seventy five human begins is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum.

7. A hurricane is coming.

It’s called Superstorm Ellery.

8. April’s security won’t be as good as everyone hoped.

That will make the whole city vulnerable.

9. Snake has only eleven hours to complete his mission.

In the original film, he had 22 hours. Plissken’s mission is to bring in Newton alive.

10. Newton has a failsafe.

It’s a mysterious device called Fat Boy — an ominous, dull metal sphere about the size of a car, in a nest of conduits and cabling.
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I remember when people used to just not watch or pay attention to things they didn't like. Now they have to blog or post on facebook or make threads to let everyone know they don't like them.

Fox wants to relaunch the cult classic, “Planet of the Apes”-style
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If that is the case it should be a good flick. The new Planet of the Apes movies have been really good.
 
purbeast0 said:
I remember when people used to just not watch or pay attention to things they didn't like. Now they have to blog or post on facebook or make threads to let everyone know they don't like them.



If that is the case it should be a good flick. The new Planet of the Apes movies have been really good.
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Pretty sure editorial pages of the newspaper have been around forever. My apologies for starting a thread and discussion on the topic. But hey, "ATOT is dying"...
 
What are you guys talking about...that was like the best scene of the movie, along with the part with the nail polish.
 
They're also doing a remake of the Six Million Dollar Man. It's going be called the Six Thousand Dollar Man. It's a pretty short movie. He can't make his deductible and he dies.
 
Escape from New York is still a movie that I'll watch when I see it on. It's one of the original blueprint movies I can remember that influenced my writing back when I wrote fiction. It definitely defined the concept of anti-hero for me and many of my friends. It'll prob always remain in my top movies of all time. Escape from LA on the other hand, was an abomination and the first time I can honestly remember a movie breaking my heart. I remember wondering wtf the makers were thinking and how I could be so far apart from them on it. The idea that the makers thought it was a good squeal to the first is mind boggling. I still to this day don't get how it connects to the original movies past the characters and repeats of story beats.

Having said all this.. I'm only surprised they haven't tried to remake it sooner. It's a classic in a sci-fi action category. Much like all the other remakes of older sci-fi action movies of late, I've little doubt this will be a CGI heavy suck fest that makes you wonder if they even bothered writing a script or if they just hired someone to connect all the action pieces together.. and it'll probably be directed by a bastard hybrid of Zack Synder and Michael Bay
 
Hey, we lack creativity, are too cheap to buy the rights of ideas from someone else so let's remake the remakes that can be remade after we remake the next remake.

Sounds like the same type of people on their fiftieth marriage.
 
purbeast0 said:
I remember when people used to just not watch or pay attention to things they didn't like. Now they have to blog or post on facebook or make threads to let everyone know they don't like them.
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No kidding, there's a writer on The Verge that's done 3 different articles trashing the new season of Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and they just had her on the Vergecast podcast. She needs an antidepressant and an anti anxiety med. we're not talking about Citizen Kane, it's a vapid TV series that offended her on professional, political, feminist and racist issues.
 
IronWing said:
They're also doing a remake of the Six Million Dollar Man. It's going be called the Six Thousand Dollar Man. It's a pretty short movie. He can't make his deductible and he dies.
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