[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.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[Dr. Thorne]

Please cast anyone but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

[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.

[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.

[donna]

Guess: Snake Plissken will beat up a woman and be saved by a woman taller than he is.

[Truth29]

Hmmm. Trying to picture de Blasio as the Duke of New York.

[Kartographer]

There ain’t no ‘sissy boys’ in ‘Hollyweird’ got the cajones to play the part. And face it if it was the present POTUS who crashed into a prison Snake would figure that was the best place for him.

[qam1]

Let’s see, over the past few years we had Annie, Total Recall, Fright Night, Conan the Barbarian, Land of the Lost, Spiderman, Karate Kid, About Last Night, Clash of Titan, Footloose, Red Dawn....

And the all sucked and bombed

But I’m sure they will get it right this time

[Political Junkie Too]

Just get the governor of New Jersey to shut down all the bridges.

No, wait a minute...

-PJ

[barbarianbabs]

Josh Holloway would be a good Snake

[Dead Corpse]

So... Despite tons of really good books out there that could be converted to screenplay, Hollywood just keep retreading the same old ground...

Dumbasses.

Ringworld. Thieves World. The Wheel of Time. Terry Brooks’ Shannara line-up. Iain M. Bank’s Culture novels. Larry Niven’s Dream Park. Koontz has a bunch of stuff that would translate directly to the screen.

For quirkier stuff, try a screen treatment for the House of Leaves or build a quick story around the Codex Seraphinianus. There’s Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series and his American Gods. If you think the Gods of CGI are smiling on you, you could take a run at Clive Barker’s Imajica, Weaveworld, or Abarat books.

For a bit more action? Try “International Lord of Hate” Larry Coreia’s Dead Six or MHI series. Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid series is also a quick-n-easy read that would appeal to a broader base if put on film.

And the list is dang near endless...

[KarlInOhio]

The were going to make Escape From Chicago but the studio’s advance scouting crew got shot.

[Jolla]

I thought Snake Pliskin was dead

[Tijeras_Slim]

How can you possibly improve on a movie that has Lee Van Cleef saying “Plisken” in to a radio 482 times?