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‘300’ Star to ‘Escape from New York’
'300' star Gerard Butler may play Snake Plissken in a remake of 'Escape from New York.' Newly minted action hero Gerard Butler may step into Kurt Russell's boots; Eddie Murphy plays a gunslinger; Naomi Watts talks to the animals and more in ET Movie News! GERARD...
Beautiful death
"300" should be the Marines' new recruitment video. The few, the proud, the Chippendales with swords. The story may be true -- 300 Spartan Davids did fight hundreds of thousands of Persian Goliaths at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. -- but the film is decidedly...
I Heard You Were Dead — and Scottish
Sheesh--yet another remake of a John Carpenter classic is on the way--this time, it's his 1981 s.f. actioner "Escape From New York" (which was actually shot in St. Louis and in Carpenter's garage at his home in L.A.), which is a great film I can pretty much watch...
300 Delights with Cast, Fails with Script
Zach Snyder's 300, long awaited by Classics nerds (like myself), teenage boys, and gay porn stars alike, finally made its debut this weekend and it lived up to its pre-release hype, smashing the competition in true Spartan form. Adapted from Frank Miller's 1998...
Gerard Butler Set to Escape from New York
Gerard Butler has signed on to star in the remake of John Carpenter's 1981 action Escape From New York for producer Neal Moritz; no studio is attached. Ken Nolan is writing the screenplay; Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who's charged with...
GERARD BUTLER YOU SNAKE (PLISSKEN)
This is how I find out they’re remaking Escape From New York, with an announcement that King Leonidas (or the Phantom of the Opera, depending on how non-charitable you’re being) is going to take on the ultimate badass role that Kurt Russell originated in the 1981...
Gerard Butler to star in Escape From New York remake?
THIS IS BUTLER! Unbelieveable news here, and this could be either a complete triumph or disaster, but Gerard Butler could be starring in a remake of the classic John Carpenter film Escape From New York and playing the superb character of Snake Plissken made famous by...
Gerard Butler: Call Him Snake
Uber-agency CAA has begun shopping a package around Hollywood’s studios. For those not familiar with the Variety lingo, a “package” is a movie project with famous names already attached, all of them clients of whatever agency is doing the shopping. This one happens to...
Graphic novel adaptation ‘300’ a raging success
Although movies based on comic books are becoming more popular, they still aren't considered very mainstream and generally haven't been very successful. Some superhero films have certainly pulled ahead of the pack ("X-Men" and "Spider-Man" come to mind) and brought in...
Gerard Butler to Escape From New York?
I am now certain that John Carpenter made a Pact With the Devil. With this evil bargain Carpenter gained an awesome career making classic after classic in the 70s and 80s. Satan, on the other hand, gained remake rights to all of these classics, which he is now selling...
300 (2007) Movie Review (Blog)
My Advice: Matinee. King Leonidas (Butler) is the ruler of Sparta. Sparta, and the rest of Greece, happens to be in the path of Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Xerxes sends a messenger with a simple request: submit or we'll kick your ass. Seems...
Gerard Butler to Escape From New York
[b It is now official: Gerard Butler is the world's premier kicker of ass.[/b His band might be doomed in 300, but they whoop a lot of bottom on the way armed only with leather pants and a lot of facial hair; and the US box office frankly didn't stand a chance in the...
300 Redefines epic as only 300 buff, sweaty Spartans
[i]Thanks to The Butlers Wife for this review![/i] 4 of 5 stars “Our arrows will blot out the sun.” “Then we shall fight in the shade.” Would you have the balls to say this facing “the 1,000 nations of the Persian Empire”? In 300, Spartan warrior Stelios (Michael...
Butler has ‘Escape’ plan
Hot off the socko bow of "300" this past weekend, star Gerard Butler is at the center of a package that CAA began shopping Monday for a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 actioner "Escape From New York." Neal Moritz is attached to produce, with "Black Hawk Down" scribe...
‘300’ Is Something to See
[i]Thank you to Ann for sending in this review![/i] When Rudolph Maté's epic about the Battle of Thermopylae, "The 300 Spartans," was released in 1962, it arrived at the tail end of Hollywood's longest sword-and-sandals cycle. Critics and audiences promptly ignored...
300: A Film for the Bravehearts (Blog)
‘300′- the 117 minute Action drama starring Gerard Butler, has all the blood and violence needed to keep the adrenaline flowing in your veins. The film, directed by Zack Snyder, is a journey back into the era when the toughest decision were taken in the most barbaric...
300 Review (Blog)
Of the movies being released this year, 300 may well have been the one I was most looking forward. In my youth one of my favourite films was 300 Spartans. And years ago I read the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. Loving both the 1962 movie and the...
ReelFanatic: 300 Review
When you're watching the spectacle that is Zack Snyder and Frank Miller's "300," I can certainly see why it's tempting to forget that this is simply a comic book movie. Granted, an ambitious and nearly flawlessly rendered one, but a comic book movie all the same. So,...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
You want action? Unique ‘300’ delivers the goods
MACHISMO is dished out in big helpings when the Spartans stand up to the Persians in the latest version of the Battle of Thermopylae. The result, Zack Snyder's "300," is a wild testosterone cartoon that is neither historical nor hysterical but somewhere in between -...