Gerard Butler plots Escape From New York
Butler, star of the breakout smash 300, is at the center of a plan to remake Escape From New York; he’d star as Snake Plissken, the one-eyed antihero charged with breaking into the maximum-security prison formerly known as Manhattan in order to rescue the trapped President. (The 1981 original starred Kurt Russell.) Following 300‘s $70 million debut over the weekend, studios are said to be battling over the project, which has a producer (Neil Moritz) and a writer (Ken Nolan, Black Hawk Down) already attached. A deal is expected to be finalized by this week.
