They're talking about remaking Escape from New York again.
This has come up before, most recently in 2010, but also back in 2007 when (gulp) Len Wiseman and Gerard Butler were attached. But now Deadline says that Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures is joining with Studio Canal to create a rebooted franchise based on the John Carpenter classic. Silver wants a new take on the story and is planning a trilogy, which will start with an origin story, presumably of Snake Plissken. The search for a writer is already happening.
Call me crazy, but wasn't one of the appeals of the original film and Kurt Russell's Snake the fact that he was kind of mysterious? We knew a bit about his past, but there were enough gaps there that allowed us to fill it all in with our imaginations while he searched for Donald Pleasence's missing president in the mean streets of 1997 Manhattan. An origin story could defuse all that.
Well, we'll see. But (spoilers for a 30-year-old movie!) in the meantime …
Enjoy this awesomeness from the late Mr. Pleasence:
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