Studio likes the latest draft…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the proposed remake to John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic film Escape From New York, which starred Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence. According to NY Mag’s Vulture blog, the redo has been put on the fast track by New Line Cinema thanks to a rewrite from Allan Loeb, who also recently did a rewrite on the Wall Street sequel.
According to the post, “Loeb nailed the humor in Plissken without slipping into camp, and he changed Snakeâs rescue-mission target from a president to a female senator, thereby upping the banter quotient. But just as big a factor was economic: They found a much cheaper way to turn Manhattan into a giant prison.”
In the latest take, the Big Apple that the as-yet-uncast Snake Plissken is dropped into will be geographically undesirable, but intact: This Manhattan was evacuated and turned into a privately run penal colony after the detonation of a crude radioactive dirty bomb on the outskirts of the city.
Don’t expect any changes however in the character of Plissken himself. According to the article (and this is our favorite part), “New Line had to sign a contract with John Carpenter stipulating, among other things, that Plissken “must be called ‘Snake'”; “must wear an eye patch”; and that he would â and we’re not making this up â “always be a ‘bad-ass.'”
For more details on the plot, click right here.
Source: Vulture blog
