Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Zack Snyder is reportedly reviving Escape From New York for a new generation.
The Man of Steel director is said to have signed up to take charge of a “reimagining” of John Carpenter’s dystopian classic 45 years after the original action blockbuster – starring Kurt Russell – hit cinemas.
The Hollywood Reporter states Snyder is onboard to write and direct a new version of Escape From New York as well as taking on a producer role.
The publication reports Carpenter – who wrote and directed the 1981 film – will be overseeing the project in a role as executive producer.
Escape from New York was set in a futuristic 1997 in which New York City’s Manhattan Island had been turned into a maximum security prison. Russell starred as eye-patch-wearing anti-hero Snake Plissken tasked with rescuing the US President after his Air Force One plane crashes on the prison island.
Carpenter brought the film back for a sequel – 1996’s Escape From L.A. – which also starred Russell.
Hollywood studios have spent years attempting to bring the original film back to the big screen but the project was seeming plagued by problems.
Directors including Len Wiseman, Brett Ratner and Breck Eisner had all been previously attached to the film and Gerard Butler had been touted as a potential star but that incarnation of Escape from New York failed to get off the ground.
Another version with director Robert Rodriguez in charge in 2017 also stalled.
The Snyder reboot will be coming through The Picture Company and StudioCanal along with the director’s Stone Quarry production company.
Escape From New York will likely have to wait until Snyder finished work on his next project, The Last Photograph, which was filmed in Iceland, Colombia, and Los Angeles las year and is currently in post-production ahead of a planned 2027 release.
Speaking about The Last Photograph, Snyder said in a statement: “The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me.
“The Last Photograph is a meditation of life and death, embodying some of the trials that I have experienced in my own life and the exploration of those ideas through image making.”
