Saturday
21Jun2008
Josh Brolin as Snake Plissken in 'Escape from New York'?
Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 8:35AM
What's that thing about the Butterfly Effect theory?
That the smallest movement can start a ripple in a pond that could one day lead
to a violent storm halfway around the way? Well, we have our butterfly flapping
its wings.
It comes to us courtesy of a French website called
Spielberg News, which apparently covers more than than.
Despite being a rather unlikely source for this information, it appears that the
site has learned that
Josh Brolin might take over the classic role of
Snake Plissken in the remake of
Escape from New York.
"C’est notre scoop de la
semaine," the site begins. "Une source proche de la production (si, si) nous a
assuré que c’est désormais Josh Brolin qui serait sur les rangs pour reprendre
le rôle de Snake Plissken dans le remake actuellement en projet de New York
1997."
Now, I took some French in high school, but even without
it, the words Snake Plissken and Josh Brolin jump out at you. Turns out it
actually says that a source close to the production has assured this website
that Brolin is in the running to take over the role
Kurt Russell made famous in
John Carpenter's original back in 1981.
When Gerard Butler was hovering over the role, Kurt
Russell's immediate reaction was not too favorable. I would suspect he's warmed
or at least thawed to the idea that the movie's being remade and he's likely
more comfortable with Brolin anyway, just because you can kind of see those two
guys having each other's backs in a bar fight.
It works for me. I mean, if you have to remake it, you might as well get someone who can nail the Plissken attitude, and I think Brolin might be the right guy for that. Although, to his credit, I could still see Kurt Russell doing it right, so...
Reader Comments (6)
Can we have Kurt Russell do it again? I just cant see anyone else getting it right.
Yeah, Snake Plissken has always had Kurt Russell's face, it's difficult to see the character played by someone else, but we must face the fact that Russell is already too old for the role.
So why don't they just stop remaking good movies? In my opinion it's evidence of lack of good ideas and often the remake doesn't come out as good as the first movie was.
If Stallone and Ford can come back and reprise their famous roles, why can't Russell do the same? He's not too old.
sure ! Russel is not that old ! I'm pretty sure he would make it easily. What's the point of making remakes ? most of the time they screw the whole thing up !
note to Colin Boyd : Your french is good, you made a perfect translation !
(sorry if I make mistakes, my english is a bit rusty)
He made EFLA 12 years ago.. not long in my book, younger than Stallone when he did the Rocky shoot. This film needs the original Plisken and Kurt Russell should come back and give us another shot.. Escape From DC or something like that. lol.
With Kurt its 20 per cent looks and 80 per cent personality. brolin may have a similar look but the similarity to Kurt ends there. The poster might look great but I can imagine as soon as I see him open his mouth and talk Ill burst out laughing. No disrespect to Brolin but snake is not him.
Butler may not have the Kurt look but his role in 300 at least gives credence to him maintaining snake has some balls. My 2 cents.