While on the press tour for Non-Stop, producer Joel Silver brought up the reboot/remake/sequel of John Carpenter’s 80s classic Escape from New York during an interview with Collider, revealing that the Batman video game Arkham City is influencing the approach to the updated version.
“There was a video game that came out a few years ago called Arkham City, which shows how Gotham became this walled prison, and they never deal with that in the story of Escape from New York, so part of our idea was to see how the city became this walled prison and how the Snake Plissken character was a hero and how he became not looked at as a hero. And then in the middle of the story would be the movie that we previously saw about the President’s daughter and he has to go in and get her. And then, you know, they did a sequel, Escape from LA, but I would like to then kind of find a way to have New York go back to a place that we’d like to see what it is today. So there is a way to tell the story in three ways, but we haven’t got there yet and we’re just starting.”
So, it seems as if it will still be a while before we get to see this reboot, but plans are definitely moving forward, with Silver indicating that we could be seeing more than one movie: “I always liked Kurt Russell’s character, the Snake Plissken character, so I’ve always liked [the idea of another movie], but we kind of figured out a way to do almost a trilogy of that story.”
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Originally published February 11, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
