FREE Showing of Stallone's NIGHTHAWKS This Sat Night

A free , outdoor movie, being shown mere yards away from one of the most climatic scenes shot in a NYC cop / bad guy movie. Who can't say they did not love seeing Stallone in our own Roosevelt Island Tram while trying to save residents from Rutger Hauer.

What if they remade Nighthawks today?

Roy Edroso over at the Village Voice blog Runnin’Scared had some fun mocking up remakes of 1970s movies he would define as nightmarish resuscitations in reaction to Chris Rosen at the New York Observer writing an article about Hollywood’s fascination with 1970s movies (ala the New Pelham 1 2 3). I could not resist joining in so here is my expectation if they remade an early 1980’s movie Roosevelt Island residents are mostly familiar with:

"Nighthawks (2010)

Deke DaSilva (Kiefer Sutherland) is an aging vampire (ala Lost Boys) who turned good and is laying low as a cop newly assigned to the NYPD anti-terrorist unit with the goal of hunting down fugitive and much younger vampire / now terrorist Wulfgar (Robert Pattinson). DaSilva’s partner Maddy Fox (Jada Pinkett Smith) is attacked by Wulfgar as she patrols the F Train stop on Roosevelt Island.

The climatic hostage scenes on the Tram would be reshot aboard the newly designed tram cabins which are conducted by futuristic fembot Svedka tram operators who decide they want Wulfgar (Masterson) for their own pleasure at which point he releases the hostages bound for Hudson / Related sponsored Roosevelt Live 2010 performances with the goal of selling / leasing apartments in the still unoccupied buildings 405 and 415 Main Street. "

Nighthawks Roosevelt Island Tram Movie Poster

Over the last year or so I have been looking for any still photographs or posters from the Nighthawks movie which features the Roosevelt Island Tram. The Tram scene in the movie involved the terrorist Wulgar taking the hostages aboard the Tram and a sequence where Sylvester Stallone was lowered into the Tram by Helicopter and where he later descended out of the Tram's emergency exit floor panel. Today I found the above poster image on another Internet site, Moon in the Gutter, that discusses the filming and creation of the movie.

A few months ago I published a post which included a link to a video which showed a snippet of the scenes of the Tram. Unfortunately that video clip appears to no longer be available or load properly on the target website.