Producer Joel Silver announced not too long ago that he wants to produce a remake of the classic John Carpenter movie, Escape from New York. It starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in a future world where New York City was turned into a walled city ran by some people you don’t want to mess with. What’s crazy is Silver announced that they have an idea that will stretch it into a trilogy.
I always liked Kurt’s character, the Snake Plissken character, so I’ve always liked that idea, but we kind of figured out a way to do almost a trilogy of that story.
He then talked more about what they would show us in the new storyline, comparing it to the game Batman: Arkham City.
There was a videogame that came out a few years ago called Arkham City, which shows how Gotham became this kind of walled prison… they never deal with that in the story of Escape From New York, so [that is] part of our story. And then, in the middle of the story would be the movie that we previously saw about how the President’s daughter goes down, [and Snake] has to go in and get her… 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 today.
Pretty bold, but I like where his head’s at. There hasn’t been anymore development with the remake than these words from Silver, but if they are going to try to capture the dark and gritty world of Arkham City, I am all for it. Let me know your thoughts about it.
Source: Total Film