Plans for the newEscape From New Yorkfilm would see the world established by John Carpenter extended, not remade, and reveal what happened after Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) fought his way through and out again.
Following on the heels of what David Gordon Green and Danny McBride did withthe recentHalloweentrilogy, Radio Silence, the directing collective behind the recent 2022Screamsequel, is also creating a legacy sequel to Carpenter’s prior body of work. The filmmaking team recently clarified questions about their upcoming take onEscape From New York.
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Radio Silence—whose current roster includes Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, and Chad Villella—cut their teeth in a big way with 2022’sScream, illustrating the ability to jump into other people’s established work and put out something that resonates with fans, which speaks well to how they want tohandle theirEscape From New Yorkproject: not as a redo but as a continuation. During an interview withEntertainment Weekly, the duo noted that the team is excited to be working on the film and that they’re still in the preliminary stages. “[It’s] Not a remake. That’s one of those properties that you can’t, it’s sort of untouchable to us, and lives in its own stratosphere in terms of how important it is to us, and how much we love it," Gillett said. “So it’ll be not unlike Scream, I think, a nod to, and a continuation of, what we love about those characters and that world.”
Carpenter, the beloved cult director behind such classics asHalloween,The Thing,Christine, andThey Live,started what can only be considered the American take onMad Max-styleapocalyptic sci-fi,Escape From New York.The 1981 film,Escape From New York,is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action adventure movie about Snake Plissken, a former special forces soldier convicted of robbing the Federal Reserve. Plissken finds himself being sent into the prison island of Manhattan, a now lawless wasteland with roving gangs vying for territory, to retrieve the President of the United States, whose plane was shot down over the island.
Considering Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin’s success withthe most recentScreamsequel,Escape From New Yorkis probably in good hands. Still, time will tell howEscape From New Yorkfares with someone other than Carpenter at the helm.
Escape From New Yorkis currently under development.
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