Escape from New York (Remake)

[Advanced Dark]

The only cool thing that might come out of Ratner doing this would be Jackman as Plisskin. Not that I'm unhappy w/Butler but Jackman could do this too.

 

[Maze]

Ratner is confirmed (and gear of wars will most likely not happen ..)

yeahh i know he get you money studios.

but there are qualities directors who get you money too!

Confirmed: Ratner Replaces Wiseman on New York Plus an Update on Gears of War!
Written by Robert Sanchez
Thursday, 04 October 2007
A few months ago, we reported that Len Wiseman was in negotiations to direct the Escape from New York remake and also Gears of War.


The big news today, that started over at AICN, is that Len Wiseman will no longer be directing Escape and that Brett Ratner has replaced him.

The IESB contacted a source over at New Line, the studio behind the film, and was able to confirm the story which is no longer a rumor but instead 100% fact. Brett Ratner will take over directorial duties on the remake.

Which leads to a lot of other questions. Will the script go through a re-write process? Hopefully not considering that it’s pretty solid but you never know with the Rat in charge of the film.

Does this mean Len Wiseman will now be moving forward with the highly anticipated Gear of War film? Nope, the IESB has been informed that Wiseman is also off the video game adaptation and that New Line Cinema will most likely not move forward with the film at all. Our source is saying that the studio has concerns with ballooning budget of the film.

Video game adaptations are not proven blockbusters the way comic book films have become in the last 10 years. Studios have a hard time gambling $100 million dollars plus to a genre that has not been able to break out of the “Uwe Boll” stereotypes.

The best hope that future video game films may have, and this is totally IMO, is to have Michael Bay make Prince of Persia after he is done with Transformers 2 and prove that a video game movie can make $300-400 million in worldwide box office receipts.

Until then be prepared for less than mediocre video game films with hacks as directors.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3418&Itemid=99

 

[Hunter Rider]

And so ends my interest in this project.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Ok so now Ratner has got it. The main thing I'm pissed about is this is likely gonna be a PG-13 film which it should NOT be. It could still be good but without the restrictions of a PG-13 film it could be great. Wiseman didn't make me want to see this film and Ratner doesn't make me NOT want to see it. I guess we're gonna need to wait to see a script review. Ratner has directed action, comedies, and drama successfully. Now can he do a dark action flick like this without going overboard on humor and flooding the cast with strippers. LOL

For now I'm giving Ratner the benefit of the doubt. That could change.



If New Line is so concerned about the ballooning budget why the hell did they bother securing the rights to Gears of War? Idiots.

 

[Rezzo]

And so ends my interest in this project.

Likewise

 

[Advanced Dark]

This isn't a rush job like X3 guys and wasn't the buzz from the early script details highly positive? Ratner is a capable director with the right material. If you give a director crap...you get crap. Ratner isn't my top choice but there's not reason to believe he'll screw this movie up. Only New Line could do that by underfunding it or approving a lousy script.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Capable is not a word i want for the guy making this film, it's fine on glitzy fluff pieces but this needed some style and a bit of edge to it, Ratner is as bland a director as there is IMO.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Peter Berg would be my choice

 

[Advanced Dark]

He's more than capable and Wiseman isn't any better than Ratner. The lynch mob mentality against Ratner is just getting old. He makes good entertainment. That is why you go to the movies...right? Now give him a crap script and give him 3 weeks notice to shoot it...then it'll be bland.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Peter Berg would be my choice

He would be a perfect fit from what ive seen of the Kingdom.

He's more than capable and Wiseman isn't any better than Ratner. The lynch mob mentality against Ratner is just getting old. He makes good entertainment. That is why you go to the movies...right? Now give him a crap script and give him 3 weeks notice to shoot it...then it'll be bland.

I have no lynch mob mentality, i don't think he's as good as Wiseman, especially with this type of thing and being bland has nothing to do with script or budget or anything else, it's inherent.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Ratner is nowhere's near my top choice Hunter...just so you know.

Del Toro is.

 

[Hunter Rider]

^^^I Never said he was, I am just pointing out that some of us have genuine reasons for not being fans of Ratner and individual thoughts on him, this isn't the X3 section.

I like Del Toro but i think he is always more comfortable when the material involves a more odd and supernatural bent.

 

[Advanced Dark]

^^^I Never said he was, I am just pointing out that some of us have genuine reasons for not being fans of Ratner and individual thoughts on him, this isn't the X3 section.

I like Del Toro but i think he is always more comfortable when the material involves a more odd and supernatural bent.

Well they could always change the lead character from Plisskin to Blade. Blade 4: Escape from NY

Blade & the Nightstalkers are all injected with a microscopic atomic bomb in their necks and they're forced to go into the prison Island of Manhattan to kill Morbius.

 

[Majik1387]

And so ends my interest in this project.

Likewise

Ditto.

Ratner is a capable director with the right material.

I honestly don't think so.

The lynch mob mentality against Ratner is just getting old. He makes good entertainment.

It's not always 'lynch mob mentality' when someone doesn't like Ratner, people can just not like anything he's done.

 

[DocHoliday]

Call me "uninterested". Wiseman at least has proven he has a vision.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Call me "uninterested". Wiseman at least has proven he has a vision.

But i wanted to call you Huckleberryt:

 

[DocHoliday]

But i wanted to call you Huckleberryt:

You may proceed, sir.

 

[Alexia Dark]

**** ******** ***** ******* *insert more expletives here*

What a horrible idea. I don't want that... that... ugh... "director" anywhere near Gerry. He's already had his share of bad movies directed by questionable people (Joel Schumacher, anyone?). He does not need Brett Ratner.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Well considering that Ratner is a better director than Wiseman...Oh wait a second I don't like the orginal film so I don't have high expections for a remake anyhow. Goodbye fellas.

 

[tyler-durden]

this movie is gonna be horrible, I was excited when i heard wiseman was directing because i'm a fan of the underworld flicks and i enjoyed die hard 4, but ratner is going to **** on this, I have no hope in him. X-men 3 was ridicously stupid and had constant mistakes.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Ratner on EfNY?

why the hell did they downgrade? let's just get Steven Summers or Rob Cohen on this thing and get it over with...

 

[Advanced Dark]

Rob Cohen is a talented director who's made some God awful choices. Dragon is one of my favorite films.

 

[Noir]

I just talked to Brett Ranter here what he has to say:

Well, first I’m going to give Snake an annoying sidekick so there can be a stream of non-stop comic banter between them.

Then I’ll make the character of the missing President a total idiot who goes around choking on pretzles and mispronouncing the word “nuclear” so that the movie has some of my famous “political subtext.”

Then I’ll just blow something up every ten minutes or so until the end of the movie (which I’ll go ahead change completely for no good reason whatsoever. Hmmm, maybe it’ll turn out that Snake isn’t really a criminal, but a good guy that has been working for the government all along!)

Wow! Remakes are so easy! Someone bring me another Hooker and some more Blow…

 

[Space Moose]

I hope this movie stays in production hell and dies quitely. Then they use the script to make another film.

 

[Symbiotic]

The main thing I'm pissed about is this is likely gonna be a PG-13 film which it should NOT be.

That's exactly what came to mind as soon as I read that Ratner was on board.