Brett Ratner is NOT Directing the Escape from New York Remak

Brett Ratner is NOT Directing the Escape from New York Remake?!


First Showing.net


October 29, 2007


Source: AICN

by Alex Billington



Now I'm really confused! We posted a rumor back in early October that
was apparently confirmed saying Brett Ratner is directing the upcoming
Escape from New York remake. Now a scooper over at AICN says it just
ain't so. And he claims he spoke to Brett Ratner himself! Of course we
have to believe it if Ratner actually said it, but is this guy's report
real from the start? The rumors floating around on the internet these
days seem to get worse and worse every month.

This is the e-mail that the scooper sent in:

I don't know if this is old news but I can tell you that Brett Ratner
isn't directing the EFNY remake, according to him. He was given an
"achievement in cinema" award at the Savannah Film Festival and I managed to
ask him afterwards about it and he said that it was happening but not
with him.

This whole thing kicked into high gear when IESB announced that Brett
Ratner would be directing the Escape from New York remake, instead of
Len Wiseman of Live Free or Die Hard fame. That announcement really
rattled some cages, given most of the online press community doesn't like
Brett Ratner because he destroyed X-Men 3. Now to see him take another
great classic remake with Gerard Butler in the lead role and destroy it
was worrying quite a few people.

Thankfully if this latest report is true, then we don't have to worry
about Ratner ruining what could possibly be a good remake. However, this
entire project is in shambles given how many rumors have been flying
around about it from the start. Is Gerard Butler even actually going to
play Snake Plissken, or is that all a big rumor, too?


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