‘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.

[a fool in paradise]

I went by cab from an airport into Brooklyn around 8pm one night and I got chills of Escape From New York.

I see that the 69th Street Bridge wasn’t even used in the movie. It was a bridge in St. Louis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Rocks_Bridge

[Boogieman]

Now, “Escape from Florida” might be good:

“In the year 2015, the state of Florida has been designated as the country’s maximum security retirement community. Once you go in, you never come out.”

[showme_the_Glory]

Escape from LA? That’s the one that sucked and should be remade better.

Nooooooooooo, they all went to Austin.

[donna]

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

[left that other site]

Yep...

I could star in that one! :-)

[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.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that this version won’t have Snake landing the glider atop the World Trade Center.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The movie & music industry have run out of original ideas.***

I’ve had to go to foreign movies to see original ideas in the movies.
There are some real good movies out there that we never see!

[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

[dfwgator]

They remade “Footloose”, think about that.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I got chills because I was in high school at the time, and dating a girl whose dad was a cop and was also the spitting image of Lee Van Cleef.

Just about jumped out of my seat when he appeared on-screen in that uniform.

[a fool in paradise]

“Matt Damon” < /sarc > #FilmActorsGuild

[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

[a fool in paradise]

They should’ve remade Footloose and set it in some liberal city like New York or San Francisco or Seattle that uses ancient cabaret laws (that require dancing permits in clubs for more than 3 or more customers who wish to dance) or “zoning” to restrict the type of music that can be played (some areas prohibit rap, punk, and metal). Henry Cisneros instituted a rap and metal ban in San Antonio.

It’s isn’t all coming from “bible thumpers”.

But that wouldn’t be a message that Hollyweird wants to broadcast.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

They are going to cast a black guy to play Snake Plisskin. That seems to be the SOP these days.

[dfwgator]

Oh that’s pretty much a done deal.

[dfwgator]

I guess technically “The Rock” is Samoan.

[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...