Escape from New York is awesome, Snake is one of the best antiheros ever to grace the screens, for those of you who want to know…. yes, I also enjoyed Escape from LA. Well there’s been word around for sometime that ‘Escape from New York’ would be rebooted as Hollywood’s think-tank is all drained of ideas! Well it looks as though ‘Escape from New York v2.0’ has a new scriptwriter in the form of Allen Loab (Wall Street 2).
io9.com
Loeb has reportedly changed Plissken’s mission from saving the president who’s crash-landed in the middle of future Manhattan, now a giant prison, to rescuing a female Senator. Who wants to bet she’s a feisty take-charge lady, with a kick-ass body to match?
NY Mag
In the original, set at the end of World War III, New York City was a husk of itself after being turned into a giant prison, but that kind of destruction gets pricey.* So in Escape 2.0, the Big Apple that the as-yet-uncast Snake Plissken is dropped into will be geographically undesirable, but intact: This Manhattan was evacuated and turned into a privately run penal colony after the detonation of a crude radioactive dirty bomb on the outskirts of the city. “It is not a disaster movie,” says a source close to the project. “It is an exposé of an ecosystem, if you put a huge wall around Manhattan and then dropped in the most fucked-up, dangerous criminals on Earth.” This means New York will still be recognizable to audiences, à la I Am Legend, rather than an entirely new Armageddon Island.
No word on who will be donning the eye patch and husky voice, a few years back it was said to be Gerard Butler? I’m sure Sam Worthington’s name will be passed around, as his name seems to crop up for everything these days!! I wonder if Mr Worthington feels dirty??
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