For about a year, the remake of the 1970’s cult-classic The Warriors has been in development. Director Tony Scott (Enemy of the State and Deja Vu) is attached to the project and recently spoke with Rotten Tomatoes about what he envisions this remake to be. He states, “I’m not doing a straight remake…I love the original Warriors and I’m using the same basic story. It’s really still 10 guys stuck at point B and they need to get back to point A. But I’m going to set it in Los Angeles and it’s going to be a kind of study of gang culture in LA today.”
He goes on to claim that he is biased to L.A., “It’s a city which is horizontal. New York is vertical, all skyscrapers, and Los Angeles is horizontal. I’m hoping to get a hundred thousand real gang-members standing on the Vincent Thomas Bridge for one shot.”
Seriously? The novel and original film placed heavy emphasis on the locations of the city. What a putz!
