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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: This Powerhouse Director Is Remaking the 80s Classic Escape From New York · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: A lot of kids who grew up in the eighties
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Speaker 2: have memories of gathering on a shag rug in one
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Speaker 2: living room or another to watch a beat up VHS
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Speaker 2: copy of nineteen eighty one's Escape from New York, where
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Speaker 2: Snake Plisken try to get out of a then futuristic
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven version of the city and looks like
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Speaker 2: a whole new generation might be going to do it
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach Snyder, the iconic director of box office smashes
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Speaker 1: like Justice League and three hundred, is officially remaking Escape
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Speaker 1: from New York.
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Speaker 3: And he's currently writing the screenplay and he's going to
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Speaker 3: be recasting all the roles.
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Speaker 2: Kurt Russell famously starred as Snake in the original nineteen
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Speaker 2: ninety six sequel Escape from LA but he's now seventy five,
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Speaker 2: so they're searching for a new Snake.
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Speaker 1: And at one point Gerard Butler was attached to play him,
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Speaker 1: but that was for a different remake that never got
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Speaker 1: off the ground.
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Speaker 2: Word is Snyder will also not be relying on CG.
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Speaker 2: He wants to shoot nearly all of the stunts and
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Speaker 2: elaborate sets in camera keeping in spirit of the original,
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Speaker 2: and he also wants to release it on the big screen.
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Speaker 2: Expect casting news on Escape from New York soon that's
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Speaker 2: direct from Hollywood.