Coming off the ginormous success of “300″ at the box office, Variety says Scottish dude with insane abs Gerard Butler is being packaged by Hollywood talent agency CAA as part of the “Escpe from New York” remake, in which Butler would play the role of Snake Plissken, originally played by Kurt Russell in the 1981 original. There’s no director attached yet, but Ken Nolan (”Blackhawk Down”) will write the script. The movie is about Snake Plissken, a one-eyed convict who is blackmailed into rescuing the U.S. president, who has been taken hostage after his plane goes down in a futuristic New York City that has been turned into a prison. That basic plot isn’t expected to change. After “300″, Butler and CAA are gonna have to beat off people trying to throw money at them to produce the movie with a spear.
Gerard Butler is Snake Plissken in the “Escape from New York” remake.
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