This page has been set up to chronicle any information about the upcoming “remake” of The Warriors movie.
Terence Winter, a writer and executive producer of The Sopranos, has been drafted in to write the remake of the 1979 street-gang classic that Tony Scott is directing for MTV Films and Scott Free Productions. The movie will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Scott’s version will follow the outline of the first film in which a gang leader is assassinated during a truce and The Warriors, wrongly accused of the assassination, must make their way home through hostile gang territories. Scott will also be updating the heightened reality of the original film for contemporary audiences. David Gale is producing with Scott, while MTV Films’ Van Toffler is executive producing with Skip Chaisson. Winter was Emmy-nominated five times for his work on Sopranos.
Scott has chosen LA for the setting of the film as he classes it as a horizontal city, rather than a vertical one which New York is. Scott is hoping for a hundred thousand gang members to be in the film and has been out and about promoting the film to real gangs in the city. This has included the Crips, Bloods, The 18th Street Gang and the Vietnamese. All of whom have been enthusiastic about the movie as they were fans of the original. For more information, read Tony Scott’s interview about The Warriors here.
There is no official word when The Warriors will be released. You can also keep up to date in the forum and at the IMDB’s page for the movie.