‘Escape From New York’ Remake To Set Up New Trilogy & Origin Story

evolveteam February 10, 2014 0

If you look up Hollywood reboots stuck in development purgatory, chances are you’ll find Escape from New York in the top five. The John Carpenter action classic starring Kurt Russell as the iconic Snake Plissken saving the President of the United States from a dystopian society has been in the works for numerous years with a number of actors tied to play the lead role: including Gerard Butler, Jason Statham, Tom Hardy, and Timothy Olyphant. After nerly a year of silence, we finally received some news on the film project.

Collider talked with producer Joel Silver about teaming up with Studio Canal to introduce a new trilogy that would start out as an origin story for the Plissken character, while confirming whether the film’s script has been completed:

“No, no we’re not, no we’re not. I mean, it’s funny because we have a relationship with Studio Canal, which somehow ended up with the rights to that, and it has been floating around L.A. or at least in the development world for a long time.

I always liked Kurt’s character, the Snake Plissken character, so I’ve always like that idea, but we kind of figured out a way to do almost a trilogy of that story.

There was a video game that came out a few years ago called Batman: Arkham City, which shows how when Gotham became this kind of walled prison and how it became a walled prison.

And they never deal with that in the story of ‘Escape from New York,’ so part of our idea was to kind of see how the city became this walled prison and how the Snake Plissken character was a hero and how he became not looked at as a hero.

And then, in the middle of the story, would be the movie that we, you know, previously saw about the President’s daughter goes down, he has to go in and get her.

And then, you know, they did a sequel, Escape from LA, but I would like to then kind of find a way to have New York go back to a place that we’d like to see what it is today.

So there is a way to tell the story in three ways, but we haven’t got there yet and we’re just starting”

There is still no official time frame for when we can expect Escape from New York to hit the big screen.