Vulture has new details about New Line Cinema’s upcoming reboot of Escape From New York, which the site says is moving forward thanks to a well-received rewrite by Allan Loeb.
“Loeb nailed the humor in Plissken without slipping into camp, and he changed Snake’s rescue-mission target from a president to a female senator, thereby upping the banter quotient,” they say, adding, “But just as big a factor was economic: They found a much cheaper way to turn Manhattan into a giant prison.”
You can read more on what we can expect here.
