Kurt Russell: "I Created Him!"

Kurt Russell isn't ecstatic about a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 dystopian thriller "Escape From New York," in which Russell was cast as terse renegade Snake Plissken (left), so Russell says to Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty.

From EW.com:
Kurt Russell: People come up to me and say, ''You played Snake Plissken.'' I didn't play Snake Plissken, I created him! Goldie [Hawn] and I were talking the other day about this, and I said, ''Man, this is weird, isn't it?'' And she said, ''When they were going to do a remake of Private Benjamin, I thought, 'I didn't play Private Benjamin, I created that role!''' I did Wyatt Earp — there's only been 50 of those. But I'll tell you what, I'll put my Wyatt Earp up against anybody's. I'll put my MacCready [his character in The Thing] up against anybody's.

I couldn't agree more, Kurt. Read more at EW.com.