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Neil Cross has received the John Carpenter seal of approval for his Escape from New York script

December 17, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Back in 2016 it was revealed that Luther creator Neil Cross had been tapped to pen the reboot/prequel to John Carpenter’s Escape from New York, and now Cross has provided an update on the project during an interview with Deadline, revealing that his script has received the seal of approval from Carpenter himself.

“Robert Rodriguez is attached to direct and it’s looking good and exciting. It was quite a challenging script, it’s a challenging thing to reinvent. One of the most terrifying sentences I’ve ever heard in my life is ‘we’ve given the script to John Carpenter’. I crawled around for three days thinking ‘oh my god’ but we got John Carpenter’s seal of approval. He approved it and that’s all I need. You never quite know [if it’s done] but I might need to do some rewrites and do some nip and tuck but in the first approximation, my job is done.”

SEE ALSO: Luther season 5 to begin filming in January

While details on the new movie are scarce, it has been reported that the film is a prequel to the 1981 original following Colonel Robert ‘Snake’ Plissken on a mission to apprehend a playboy heir to an agrochemical and biotech corporation.

Of course, given that 20th Century Fox has now been acquired by Disney, the status of this and many other projects in development is now in question. Let us know in the comments below if you’re hoping to see it move forward…

Originally published December 17, 2017. Updated October 7, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Escape from New York, john carpenter, Neil Cross, Robert Rodriguez

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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