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EXCLUSIVE: Joel Silver‘s Silver Pictures has joined forces with Studio Canal to build a new franchise with a retelling of Escape From New York. The 1981 John Carpenter original starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a tough convict dropped into a futuristic New York that has been turned into a post-apocalyptic maximum security prison. He’s charged with rescuing the president (Donald Pleasence), who is held hostage by the prison kingpin (Isaac Hayes) after his plane crashes within the city walls. Snake’s offered a pardon if he’s successful, but fitted with a lethal device that will kill him if he tries to run or misses the deadline.
A remake had been attempted not that long ago at New Line with producer Neil Moritz and The Crazies helmer Breck Eisner, with Gerard Butler, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hardy all mentioned as potentials to play Plissken. That effort ended when New Line let the option lapse almost two years ago.
Studio Canal, which partnered with Silver on the Liam Neeson action films Unknown and Non-Stop and the upcoming Sean Penn-starrer Prone Gunman, has entrusted Silver with the rights. Silver is planning an entirely new take on the material. The goal is to turn it into a trilogy, starting with an origin story in a fashion similar to the way Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes restarted that franchise. Studio Canal will finance development of the project before placing it with a studio. A writer search is underway.
Silver and Andrew Rona will produce. Silver’s EVP Alex Heineman will be executive producer. As for a new Snake, either Butler, Renner, Hardy or Neeson would hit the mark as the one-eyed tough guy.
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I remember the days when Joel Silver didn’t have to slum it by rebooting garbage…
But I guess every dog has his day.
Not sure which is worse: the fact that you accuse Silver of never slumming, or your ignorant assessment of Carpenter’s classic as “garbage.”
Either way, you’ve lost the internet.
To each his own. It’s not friggin Shakespeare, but it’s seriously entertaining and a cult classic. I’m thinking that an origin story would be fun. Isn’t that what it’s about?
The original is so good. Just go watch that version instead. Stop with all this remakes. The 20somethings won’t go anyways.
Exactly. I don’t think I want to see anyone else but Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken anyway, he was perfect in the original.
IDK…it could be fun. It’s WORTH remaking if they don’t cast it wrong. If they take it seriously it could seriously kick ass.
Some things should not be remade. There’s only one Snake Plissken.
Bad idea. Even John Carpenter couldn’t recreate the success of EFNY – and he had the original Snake Plissken to work with!
I’m really starting to hate the word “reboot”.
Makes sense though, since ‘boot’ is a slang term for ‘vomit.’
Another remake? So many young writers are waiting for their chance with fantastic scripts and yet Hollywood is remaking every single movie that was already made. I’m crying, totally serious, crying. Right now.
They should get Kurt Russell to play the president.
Just watched it on cable TV the other night. And no remake/reboot/remodel is necessary. Not at all. It is perfectly fine as is. Just seeing that headline makes me ill.
Curious how they bring back Snake. I heard he was dead.
Geez. No one gets your reference. I did! Bravo!
^^this^^
awesome..but the names Plisskin
LAME!
This will be a horror story but aside from the terror in that and the mentioning of Gerad Butler as a possibility to pliskins shoes…. Liam Neeson? Really? Isn’t he older than or the same age as Kurt Russel? wtf? this movie was only made in the 80′s!!! Dirty Harry kept coming back, Die Hard movies are STILL BEING MADE WHY oh Why is snake no longer kurt russel? Pretty sure he’s still a lead actor that can open a film. these type of remakes are ridiculous… and shameful.. and ALWAYS HORRIBLE. but this really takes the cake.
“This movie was only made in the 80?s!!!”
Which was 30 years ago and most of the target audience for the remake was not even born.
I heard the original film wasn’t filmed in NYC at all but slumy east St. Louis in Illinois.
Yep, they hardly had to build any sets at all!
That’s right, the prequel to Planet of the Apes didn’t work out. Oh wait…
Planet Of The Apes turned out okay in spite of itself and is an exception, just ask the producers of that hugely successful Total Recall remake. Who knows how this will go, but right now it’s a cynical marketing ploy and a lame, sad attempt at making something, I guess you can call it a movie. We can all understand why they would do this, but anyone who cheers it on is the enemy.
EFNY is one of my favorite films, but who cares if it gets remade? The mob of lit torches and cries of blasphemy are pretty silly. It’s a cool story, and yes, could benefit form an completely updated take. Since we never got part 3, Escape From Earth, it’ll be cool for me, as a fan, to see what they come up with. Not so sure it has to start with an origin story, though, but that’s what the last attempt was planning to do as well.
And everyone claiming there’s only “one Snake”… you guys know he was intentionally ripping off Clint Eastwood form the Leone western, right? If there can be more than one Batman, and more than one Bond, there can certainly be more than one Snake.
“It’s a cool story, and yes, could benefit form an completely updated take.”
It’s statements like this that insure we get the movies we get.
The notion of this property as a Warner Bros film is exciting. But let’s face it, this shit is going to end up at Lionsgate. One day you’ll be at Best Buy looking at marked-down Blu-Rays and you’ll find a “triple-feature” disc with the “new” Escape from New York, Dredd, and Punisher: War Zone. Am I right?
Joel, please don’t do this. The original was better when Snake’s “origin story” was a mystery and unclear. John Carpenter gave a few hints in the follow-up Escape from LA (basically the same film) about an incident in Cleveland. Do you thionk audiences are so dumb, or are so starved for storylines, that we can’t infer Snake’s beginnings ourselves? We don’t need it spoon-fed to us.
Better yet, why not pay a screenwriter to come up with an original idea? No more re-makes, please.
The same actors over and over. So tired of Hardy, Renner and co. Find some new blood.
I think a black actor should be chosen to embody the Plissken role. Furthermore I think I know who, Michael K. Williams (Omar from the HBO series The Wire).
Jesus Christ. The Wire fanboys are worse than the Beliebers and Claymates rolled into one.
Finally got around to seeing the original a couple of months ago and it was among the most over-rated pieces of drivel ever captured on celluloid. An ugly, cheap looking movie with a monotonous score, boring characters, and no energy. Normally I roll my eyes at remakes but a remake of this (done properly) would actually be a good idea. It’s not like they could do worse than the original (or the sequel).
I had never heard of the term Claymate before reading your post. Now I know that a Claymate is a fan of Clay Aiken. That’s knowledge I don’t need to have in my head.
Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy? I heard you were dead.
Joel Silver sounds like a great producer for this.
What foreign government will finance for Silver?
Finally, DETROIT may become usefull again-no need for any new set’s !
@Oliver, I have to agree with your casting criticism. I predicted those choices prior to reading the actual names listed. I was going to suggest a new spin by considering Idris Elba for the role of Snake, but judging from what I have seen in Prometheus and Pacific Rim, he may not be the man for the job. How about Keanu Reeves as Snake, Bryan Cranston as the President, Rutger Hauer as Hauk, and John C. Reilly as Cabbie?
I’m all for it as long as they keep the basketball scene.
That’s from Escape from LA, the sequel
You all understand the the original movie, while entertaining, is not actually GOOD, right? Whether that in itself is an argument not to remake it can be debated but the argument that a remake would be tarnishing something sacred makes no sense.
No, it’s not a good movie. It’s a great movie.
I was thinking the same thing. lol
The movie was B-quality at best from acting to story but it was fun because for the time there weren’t many movies like it. A cyberpunk film before Blade Runner OMG!
Who will play Adrienne Barbeau’s breasts?