Hollywood Is Trying to RemakeEscape From New YorkAgain

You are not experiencingpost - apocalypticdéjà vu . Hollywood is , yet again , essay to remakeJohn Carpenter ’s landmark 1981 film , Escape From New York . This time , from the filmmaking team behindReady or Not and Scream , Radio Silence .

Deadlineconfirmed the intelligence , which was reported 24 hours earlier onGiant Freaking Robot . The difference between the reports is that Deadline does n’t mention original headliner Kurt Russell , while Robot says he ’s set to return . Subsequent stories , on site likeBloody Disgusting , say Russell is not tie to the movie , at least decently now . John Carpenter is executive grow though . Because of course he is .

There ’s no word on what angle this remake will take considering a writer has reportedly not even been hired yet . So this projection is a ways off , if it even happens at all . Do n’t forget , after Fox got therights to the franchise in 2015,multiple filmmakershave beenattached or rumoredto be interested in redo the moving-picture show , with none find it in front of television camera . It ’s almost as if it ’s one of those plastic film that should not be remade .

Will Snake slither his way back to the big screen?

Will Snake slither his way back to the big screen?Image: Fox

“ It is very much the merchandise of one brain and how are you going toreplace Kurt Russell ? ” author Leigh Whannelltold io9 back in 2020 when he was thinking about doing something with the prop . “ So I guess I ’m a little afraid of it and I need to approach it very cautiously . If I was going to do something , I would have to sleep together precisely how I was going to please the fan of the original . ”

But that ’s just one gentleman’s gentleman ’s opinion . Radio Silence ( Matt Bettinelli - Olpin , Tyler Gillett , and Chad Villella ) did a bang - up job taking a franchise lover thought was dead in Scream and bringing it back for not one , but two subsequence ( at least.)Maybe this prison term it gets over the wall and comes out with the surety .

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