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Butler Can't Escape Russell
Hollywood’s latest ballyhooed remake has elicited the F-word from both Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. But for entirely different reasons.
Friday, March 23, 2007 at 4:50 PM
By Dennis Michael
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Promoting Grindhouse last weekend to the NASCAR crowd
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Will Kurt Russell appear in the recently announced planned remake of Escape from New York, perhaps by way of some sort of comical cameo? When asked that exact question by Entertainment Weekly, the actor replied in true Snake Plissken style: ‘F*ck that!'
The main beef Goldie’s guy – and currently also one of QT’s Grindhouse guys - has with the idea of Gerard Butler playing a 21st century snake is his lineage. After all, there’s a reason the John Carpenter genre classic isn’t called Escape from Glasgow.
“I do think that character was quintessentially one thing,” Russell expounds in the interview. “And that is, American. He's a fascinating character. In fact, he's the most complex character I've ever played.”
Carpenter is a little mellower about the project. He told the website SuicideGirls.com that the film is more of a prequel than a remake, with a lot more details about Plissken’s background before the events in New York. But he’s very clear on his involvement in the remake.
"My main involvement is I read the scripts and make sure the character is the same character that we wrote originally,” he told the website. “I think that would be cool. My other main involvement in this project is to extend my hand and have a check placed in it. After 30 odd years of being in the f*cking business, it’s nice to not have to do anything and get paid."
If anyone deserves that, it’s Carpenter.
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