Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne are set to star in Focus Features
Assault on Precinct 13. According to the Hollywood Reporter the movie will be a remake of the 1976 John Carpenter film.
The project, helmed by Jean-Francois Richet and 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.