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Zack Snyder is group to constitute and nonstop a reimagining of Escape from New York, nan dystopian cult classical from John Carpenter, Deadline tin confirm.
Details arsenic to nan crippled of nan caller movie stay nether wraps. StudioCanal announced it astatine CinemaCon successful April. The Picture Company’s Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will nutrient done their wide woody pinch StudioCanal, which shares authorities to nan spot pinch Carpenter. Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller will nutrient via Stone Quarry, pinch Carpenter serving arsenic executive producer. The task is intended for merchandise successful theaters.
One of nan astir influential science-fiction action films ever produced, Escape from New York introduced viewers to nan eyepatch-wearing antihero S.D. “Snake” Plissken (Kurt Russell), a dressed up Special Forces seasoned turned national convict who is coerced into rescuing nan U.S. President from Manhattan, successful a world wherever nan full land has been turned into a maximum information prison.
Released successful July 1981, nan movie grossed much than $50 cardinal worldwide against a $6 cardinal budget, spurring nan accumulation 15 years later of sequel Escape from L.A.
Attempts to remake nan movie spell backmost decades, pinch various studios and creatives eyeing projects astatine different points – Joel Silver, Robert Rodriguez, Radio Silence, and Leigh Whannell, among them.
Snyder is presently successful station on The Last Photograph, a play pursuing an ex-DEA operative and warfare photographer successful hunt of a brace of missing children successful South America. He reunites connected nan task pinch Stuart Martin and Fra Fee, stars of his Rebel Moon films for Netflix.
News of Snyder’s engagement with Escape from New York was first reported by THR.
