StudioCanal is teaming with The Picture Company to develop a reimagining of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, announced via THR from CinemaCon today.
The remake news comes a few years after Radio Silence parted ways with 20th Century Studios over a planned “requel.” Saw originator Leigh Whannell had even been attached as writer for the reboot.
Escape from New York was released in 1981 and set in 1997. In the film, “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.”
Kurt Russell starred as prisoner Snake Plissken.
In 1996’s Escape from LA, also directed by John Carpenter, “Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.”
Carpenter himself had even stated in 2019 that he felt Snake Plissken had another story or two left to tell, but no word at this time on how involved the horror master will be in StudioCanal’s update. Or whether Russell will reprise the role.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.