ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Reimagining Lands ‘Ready Or Not’ Directors
It’s been close to fifteen years since efforts began to try and revamp John Carpenter’s 1981 classic, Escape From New York. Rights have been changing hands with different directors and stars circling the film and now the latest movement sees Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella – a.k.a. Radio Silence (Ready Or Not, Scream 2022) on board to direct the film for 20th Century Studios.
The trio will produce the pic alongside The Picture Company’s own Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Carpenter, who directed the original featuring Kurt Russell as outlaw war hero Snake Plissken, forced to infiltrate the dystopian walled prison city of New York and rescue the U.S. President or face death from an explosive device in his neck, is exec producing the title whose rights in other territories outside of the U.S. will be handled by France’s Studiocanal.
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