We had learned late last year that filmmaking team Radio Silence (V/H/S, Southbound, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive producer of the upcoming movie.
The project had originally been described as a “reboot,” but filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett say it’s more of a “requel” in a new chat with ComicBook.com.
“I don’t think we know enough about the movie yet to be able to say anything, but yes ‘requel’ is the idea,” the Radio Silence filmmakers tell the outlet. “There’s no way to remake how great that movie is, would be a fool’s errand to try. So, you know, we’ll try to borrow what we love from it and find a new way to put the package together.”
Kurt Russell‘s involvement in the upcoming “requel” is still up in the air at this time, but it sounds like the idea here is to reboot the franchise rather than remake it from the ground up.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
Escape from New York was set in 1997. “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.”
In 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.”
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