Remember that Escape From New York remake that Len Wiseman was supposed to be directing? Well it turns out he’s not doing it anymore, and instead one Mr. Brett Ratner has officially signed on for the gig. It may sound like some sort of sick joke, but alas, it has apparently been confirmed by IESB who say it is “100% fact”. How Brett Ratner continues to get jobs like this is beyond me. I’m not saying he’s not a competent director, or even that I hated all of his previous movies. I think I was in the minority of people who thought he didn’t do anything wrong with X-Men: The Last Stand. But the fact of the matter is, people love to hate Brett Ratner nowadays, and when you’re dealing with a remake that is already being seen as unnecessary and foolish, why on earth would you attach one of the most hated directors to the project???

All that aside, I don’t see him as being any worse than Len Wiseman for the job, but this movie is quickly becoming equivalent to the Assault on Precinct 13 remake in my eyes. I still haven’t seen it, and I really have no interest in seeing it because I can’t see how it possibly has any connection to the original outside of the name. I suppose I am a little bit curious to see what Gerard Butler will do with the role, but the bottom line is that it’s not going to feel anything like John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. That is probably what the studio wants, but if that’s the case then why even bother doing a remake?