Escape from New York (Remake)

If you "HAD" to recast Plisskin...do you like the choice of Gerard Butler???

  • Yes I like him...not sure if he's my top choice but...I like it! :)

  • No he's not right for the role at all. :(

  • Not bad but...I'm not sure yet...need to give it more time.

  • Yes I like him...not sure if he's my top choice but...I like it! :)

  • No he's not right for the role at all. :(

  • Not bad but...I'm not sure yet...need to give it more time.


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Kurt Russel is Snake Plissken. There is no other. Why can't they just do another sequel?
 
Kurt Russel is Snake Plissken. There is no other. Why can't they just do another sequel?

Cause Kurt Russel has dignity, and A isn't making a pg-13 EFNY, B-He doesn't need to ****e himself to have a career like Stalone, and C-Is a little old, I'm not sure if I would like to see him as Snake again, he looked old in LA and that was 12 years ago
 
As I said two pages ago, He proved in Death Proof that he isn't too old to get it done but on the other hand everyone would complain it's just another milker before the guy is too old like Rocky Balboa, Indy 4, & Die Hard.
 
In RockyBalboa sly was way too old, Bruce willis did pretty good in die hard, and no one has seen anything besides a few pics for indy 4
 
Mostow is a great choice but WTF he has about 4 deals on his plate including NAMOR! Peter Jackson would be awesome too.
 
Well this movie's already losing directors and actors.

Let it go.
 
Creative differences? More like Kurt had a talk with him or New Line wanted to go PG-13.

I imagine this film is still going forward so here's my top choice for Snake now:

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Creative differences? More like Kurt had a talk with him or New Line wanted to go PG-13.

I imagine this film is still going forward so here's my top choice for Snake now:

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Ew no way he would be a last choice for me. He is a great actor and he is built but he charisma the way he carries himself is just completely wrong for the character of snake.

Im going back to my first choice pick
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^ That's why they call themselves "actors". They can portray different characters.
 
SSSSSOOOOOO glad Ratner is gone, bit gutted Butler is but there are other choices out there. And Mostow is a good choice.
 
^ That's why they call themselves "actors". They can portray different characters.
No those are called great actors, but either way there are just some roles that certain actors/actresses are not able to convincingly do.
Mathew Mcconnihay(sp?) is too charismatic too pretty boyish for the role of snake. He is better suited as the self sacrificing hero, where snake is an anti hero that only plays the good guy because he is forced to.
 
He almost looks right but he looks so damn out of shape and almost awkwardly built. I've seen you or someone else post other pics of him and he looks really weak. Maybe covered up in leather and clothes it won't matter but if he has to take his shirt off for that fight scene...LOL.
 
No those are called great actors, but either way there are just some roles that certain actors/actresses are not able to convincingly do.
Mathew Mcconnihay(sp?) is too charismatic too pretty boyish for the role of snake. He is better suited as the self sacrificing hero, where snake is an anti hero that only plays the good guy because he is forced to.

That's what anyone would have said about Kurt Russell before he started working with John Carpenter. All he made was Disney movies for kids, with short hair and was clean shaven.

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That's what anyone would have said about Kurt Russell before he started working with John Carpenter. All he made was Disney movies for kids, with short hair and was clean shaven.

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Yea how old was he in your reference? Come on now your just grabbing from anywhere. Russel was young there and still a kid.
You can argue Dicaprio with that logic and be right because he has proven to be a great actor once he did gangs of new york and since then shown great range for being able to play characters. something that neither Russel or Mcconihey have done.
 
As I said two pages ago, He proved in Death Proof that he isn't too old to get it done but on the other hand everyone would complain it's just another milker before the guy is too old like Rocky Balboa, Indy 4, & Die Hard.

Yeah but in DP Russel really didn't have to do anything but sit in a drivers seat..being snake is a whole new ball game, especially with the way you know they will do it


I think I would like to see someone real random, who doesn't appear to be a snake but takes the character on, nuances it and tour de forces it in a much different but sweet way as apposed to Russel, cause Russel will be so synonomys with snake unless someone brings a different aspect of him out like the many bonds have done...if every bond had copycated connery the series would be far less popular because everyone would be dissapointed that it isn't connery.. so my choices are

Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Guy Pearce, and Clive Owen (well maybe not the aussie and the brit, but they are still bad asses)...just let a great actor like one of these three take the role and do whatever they want with it

I still however think a Danny Boyle could make a brilliant EFNY, you could almost look at 28 days later as escape from london but with zombies instead of the duke etc
 
Even in his late 20's Kurt was doing Disney films and didn't have this tough guy image at all. Even Kurt himself does not come across like a tough guy Snake Plisskin. That's his acting. In real life him and Matthew have almost the same personality minus the accent. Though Matthew is a bit weird with hit beach rituals. LOL
 
That's what anyone would have said about Kurt Russell before he started working with John Carpenter. All he made was Disney movies for kids, with short hair and was clean shaven.

the problem with your comparison (aside from what midnhtsun already posted) is that, at the time Escape from New York was being made, Kurt Russell was just turning 30 and was still an unknown who hadn't done many movies....whereas Matt McConaughey has done numerous movies and is pushing 40. Kurt Russell was a gamble because no one knew his acting range, but everyone knows how Matt McConaughey acts. i like Matt, he's a cool guy and i like most of the movies he's in....but he's not the selfish, anti-hero that Snake is supposed to be.
 
Yeah but in DP Russel really didn't have to do anything but sit in a drivers seat..being snake is a whole new ball game, especially with the way you know they will do it


I think I would like to see someone real random, who doesn't appear to be a snake but takes the character on, nuances it and tour de forces it in a much different but sweet way as apposed to Russel, cause Russel will be so synonomys with snake unless someone brings a different aspect of him out like the many bonds have done...if every bond had copycated connery the series would be far less popular because everyone would be dissapointed that it isn't connery.. so my choices are

Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Guy Pearce, and Clive Owen (well maybe not the aussie and the brit, but they are still bad asses)...just let a great actor like one of these three take the role and do whatever they want with it

I still however think a Danny Boyle could make a brilliant EFNY, you could almost look at 28 days later as escape from london but with zombies instead of the duke etc

Matt Damon I can't see at all. He's too Progeria looking. Guy Pearce...nahhh. Clive...not right either. Mark Wahlberg...maybe but he looks funky with long hair. Of course they might not try to make him look like Kurt at all and reimagine the character visually.
 
the problem with your comparison (aside from what midnhtsun already posted) is that, at the time Escape from New York was being made, Kurt Russell was just turning 30 and was still an unknown who hadn't done many movies....whereas Matt McConaughey has done numerous movies and is pushing 40. Kurt Russell was a gamble because no one knew his acting range, but everyone knows how Matt McConaughey acts. i like Matt, he's a cool guy and i like most of the movies he's in....but he's not the selfish, anti-hero that Snake is supposed to be.

That's where acting comes in. Wasn't he that way in that stupid Dragon movie?
 
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