‘Escape From New York’ Remake Rights Deal Won By Fox

Deadline Hollywood ^ | January 13, 2015 | Mike Fleming Jr

[C19fan]

EXCLUSIVE: Snake Plissken is back! Fox has emerged from competitive bidding and closed a deal to remake the 1981 John Carpenter-directed cult classic Escape From New York. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company will produce. The original was released by Avco Embassy, and the rights were owned by Studiocanal. Carpenter will be an executive producer and will exert creative influence over the project. Fox’s Mike Ireland brought it in and will steer. The hope is to reinvent the property with an eye toward launching a new franchise.

[C19fan]

By the time the movie is released NYC under DiBlasio will devolve to where a rebooted "Escape from NY" might mean something to viewers.

[OneWingedShark]

Oh, yay!
More remakes!

*sigh*

[left that other site]

Please...Noooooo...

Everybody who escapes from New York comes to South Florida!

LOL.

[a fool in paradise]

Why don’t they remake Escape from LA? That’s the one that sucked and should be remade better.

[dfwgator]

It could be a documentary real soon.

[cuban leaf]

“Florida. Where America goes to die.”

:-D

[a fool in paradise]

I’m waiting for the Citizen Kane of remakes, Citizen Kanye.

[cuban leaf]

Ever since I watched the first Escape from New York, it’s kinda how I see the city. A place to be strongly avoided. Not because of the movie, though.

And you are right. It’s the better of the two.

[Dr. Thorne]

Please cast anyone but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

[dfwgator]

Everybody who escapes from New York comes to South Florida!

Billy Joel pretty much called it back in '75

You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive

[left that other site]

God’s waiting Room.

I call the Coral Ridge upon which the Ft Lauderdale is built the “Geezer Plateau”.

[dfwgator]

Please cast anyone but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Or Vin Diesel.

[left that other site]

Good Ol’ Billy Joel.

The funny thing is, all the NYC elders who live here in Floridah worship at his shrine!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If it doesn’t have Kurt Russell in it, it will be DOA.

[4yearlurker]

The movie & music industry have run out of original ideas. They both suck.

[V_TWIN]

“Everybody who escapes from New York comes to South Florida”

Well, not all of ‘em, I got my share in NE Fla.

[ßuddaßudd]

I know,, and they act like they made something on their own.. salaries on movie remakes should be half of new movies,,,

[Lee'sGhost]

Like Total Recall, the special effects will be improved but the story/acting will probably be the same. Pretty hard to improve on Kurt Russels’ Snake Plissken.

That said, any movie with Kate Beckinsale AND Jessica Biel is must see in my book.

[Borges]

The original is an overrated bore. A great idea made into a lousy film.

[left that other site]

LOL! It’s a BIG state.