First he ’s playing the current United States President of the United States in Oliver Stone ’s new biopic , and next Josh Brolin could be ship to deliver the chair of the U.S. from an substitute dystopia . A Gallic site reports that Brolin is in talks to asterisk in the remaking of Escape From New York , which was originally rig to star Gerard Butler . And a new rumored title for the film raises some interesting question about its plot line this time around .
According to Spielberg News , the remake of John Carpenter ’s classic will be called New York 1997 , not get by From New York . As in the original , convicted criminal Snake Plissken gets sent into Manhattan , which is now a maximum - protection prison , to rescue the U.S. president who ’s crash there . The movie is still looking for a director , now that Brett Ratner and Len Wiseman have bail .
The 1981 original was set in 1997 , which is now our yesteryear . You ’d retrieve the secure thing to do would be to set the remake in 2020 or thereabouts , but it sound as though the producers want it to be an alternate yesteryear . Which I ’m kind of worked up about , in reality . We ’ve had tons of dystopian futures , but how many dystopian alternate pasts have we had ? Especially if the 1997 Chief Executive is a mess up up alternate reading of Bill Clinton — or Bob Dole , possibly . Of naturally , the Gallic web site could be on crack , or I could be mis - translating . [ Spielberg NewsviaMTV Movies ]
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