Assault on Precinct 13
Directed by	Jean-Francois Richet
Produced by	Pascal Caucheteux, Jeffrey Silver, Stephane Sperry
Written by	John Carpenter(earlier film), James DeMonaco
Starring	Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea De Matteo, Brian Dennehy
Music by	Graeme Revell
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures
Released	January 19, 2005
Budget	$20,000,000
IMDb profile

Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action/thriller movie, directed by Jean-François Richet. It is a loose remake of the 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, with an updated plot, and was distributed and produced by Rogue Pictures.

Plot

With only a few hours until the new year, Detroit's oldest police station, Precinct 13, is about to close forever. Only a few officers are on duty for New Year's Eve, including Sergeant Jake Roenick (played by Hawke). Roenick is haunted by a botched undercover operation from eight months before that resulted in the death of his entire team.

Meanwhile, crime lord Marion Bishop (played by Fishburne) is arrested after a confrontation results in the death of an undercover officer. Bishop is put on a prison bus with several other criminals. A raging snowstorm and tretcherous road conditions force the bus driver to make a detour to Precinct 13, where the prisoners are to be held until the storm is over.

New Year's celebrations at the precinct are cut short, however, as the officers find themselves under siege from an elite team of masked gunmen, who are believed to be trying to extract Bishop. All of the precinct's occupants become targets once the gunmen's identities become apparent: they are a gang of crooked officers led by none other than Marcus Duvall (played by Byrne), head of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Squad. The group are in fact trying to kill Bishop to prevent him from testifying against their corrupt activities.

The police officers have to release the criminals and join forces with them to have any chance of staying alive, as more and more corrupt officers surround the precinct and the inhabitants find themselves pitted against street cops, snipers and even a SWAT unit.

Tagline: Unite and fight.

Main cast

• Ethan Hawke — Jake Roenick
• Laurence Fishburne — Marion Bishop
• Brian Dennehy — Jasper O'Shea
• John Leguizamo — Beck
• Ja Rule — Smiley
• Gabriel Byrne — Marcus Duvall
• Maria Bello — Alex Sabian
• Drea de Matteo — Iris Ferry

See also

• 2005 in film
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)

External links

• Official site
• Assault on Precinct 13 at The Internet Movie Database