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Some people may have heard that Snake Plissken is dead, but Zack Snyder is not one of them.
The only way out is behind 300 and Zack Snyder’s Justice League He came on board to write and direct the reimagining Escape from New Yorkthe classic dystopian action film directed by John Carpenter that introduced viewers to the cool anti-hero who wears an eyepatch and a cobra tattoo, sources say Hollywood Reporter.
The distinguished project is now being prepared and will be put on the market in the coming weeks, and represents the first concrete steps to obtain Escape from New York The film arrives and goes in years. The intention is to launch the feature in a theatrical manner, according to sources.
Image company partners Andrew Rona and Alex Heinemann It will be produced through its overall deal with StudioCanal, which, along with Carpenter, controls the underlying rights to the property.
Snyder will also produce alongside his Stone Quarry production partners Deborah Snyder and Wesley Kohler. Carpenter is also involved in the update, serving as executive producer.
StudioCanal had no comment.
The original 1981 film is set in the future (then 1997) where Manhattan has been transformed into an island-sized maximum security prison. When the President of the United States lands in the crumbling city, with sensitive information that could change the world, Plissken, a former military hero turned outlaw, is forced to rescue a man and must face gangs, the military, and his former lieutenants in order to survive.
The film starred Kurt Russell as Plissken and also featured Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Donald Pleasance, Harry Dean Stanton, and Adrian Barbeau. Carpenter made a sequel in 1996 titled Escape from Los Angeles
Snyder’s take on the material is kept in the bag, but it’s known that Snyder aimed to make a grittier, dirtier film, using as many practical effects or locations as he did when he remade it. Dawn of the Dead As his debut, more of something more straightforward, like his later breakthrough hits, including Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Hollywood has been trying to make a remake for years, but it’s been difficult to make anything stick. New Line has the rights to the period which has seen Len Wiseman, Brett Ratner and Breck Eisner among those playing the musical director’s chairs and Gerard Butler attached to play Plissken. Robert Rodriguez was attached to direct the version when the rights were with 20th Century Fox in 2017, as were Leigh Whannell. Radio Silence was involved in a more recent incarnation.
I made StudioCanal Escape from New York A priority for the company, which both Canal+’s CEO and chief content officer, Anna Marsh, and EVP of global marketing and distribution, Hugh Spearing, mentioned as part of their presentation at this year’s CinemaCon. The company is trying to establish itself as a franchise player through… Paddington Movies and recent evil dead films.
StudioCanal has a long partnership with Picture Company, producing action films such as Gunpowder milkshake And Liam Neeson Without stopping. Picture Company is currently in production in Los Angeles tyranta culinary thriller starring Charlize Theron and Julia Garner for Amazon MGM, is in the pipeline for a Will Smith action thriller. Supermaxalso for Amazon MGM, which will be filmed in August. The Picture Company was also a producer of the Bob Dylan biopic Completely anonymousWhich received eight Academy Award nominations.
Snyder is in the midst of moving away from zombies, superheroes and spaceships, the genres that made him one of the biggest filmmakers in town, and is in post-production on his long-gestating passion project. Last photoan independent drama set in the mountains of South America.
He is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer.
