![]() Via the Radio Silence production, 20th Century Fox is looking to add the Escape from New York franchise to its recent relaunches of the Screamand Predator series. Even after forty years, Carpenter’s ominous take on America’s spiraling into lawlessness remains a high-stirring concept that could have significant juice at the box office and streaming despite its abundant like-minded dystopian competition. Here’s hoping Russell and/or his offspring will be represented because the franchise still has major potential. They may even go for a female, there's nobody like Kurt, and there's nobody like Snake, male or female." “He's really good, Wyatt is really good, but it's up to him and up to Kurt. The re-casting of Plisken has long been an issue as Russell is so identified as the role – “I didn’t play Snake Plissken, I created him,” he told Entertainment Weekly – but an agreeable fix, proposed by Carpenter, who is set to executive produce, has been to estate the original Snake’s son, Wyatt Russell as Plissken, and with his father possibly involved in a crucial sideline role. “Snake” Plissken, who has only been portrayed by Kurt Russell in the first film, and its 1996 follow-up, Escape from L.A. That would be the series’ rough and ragged protagonist, Lieutenant S.D. ![]() ![]() Hence, speculation is rampant about this new incarnation of the adventures of Snake Plissken. The directing team, Radio Silence ( V/H/S, Southbound, Scream), made up of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella, has been tapped by 20th Century Studios with the attached to direct the project. A reboot, whether it be a sequel or a full re-imagining of John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi action cult classic, Escape from New York, has been in development hell for ages, but it’s just been announced as finally happening. ![]()
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