'Die Hard' Director to Shoot 'Escape' Remake - News Story

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:31 AM EDT
'Die Hard' Director to Shoot 'Escape' Remake

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Director Len Wiseman, who last helmed Bruce Willis' Live Free or Die Hard, is in negotiations to shoot the remake of Escape From New York for New Line Cinema, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

300 star Gerard Butler will topline as anti-hero Snake Plissken, a role played by Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's 1981 film.

The original was set in a futuristic 1997, when Manhattan had been turned into a giant maximum-security prison. The U.S. president's plane crashed on the island, and Plissken�incarcerated for robbing a federal reserve bank�was coerced into performing a rescue mission. The script for the remake will inject fresh elements.

Wiseman directed his wife, Kate Beckinsale, in Underworld and its sequel, Underworld: Evolution.

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