Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne are preparing to star in Focus Features’ remake of John Carpenters’ 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13 to be directed by French filmmaker Jean-Francois Richet.
The new version, written by James DeMonaco, is set in the present day in a police precinct building that is about to be shut down. During a snowy New Year’s Eve, a mobster (Fishburne) is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop (Hawke) must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster.
