You know,,,they can do some damn good things with FX these days. Instead of spending $200 Million dollars on an remake that nobody wants, how about
putting some money into a "Special Edition" of the original film. They can put in scenes of more destroyed buildings, more prisoners and what ever else they want to do. George Lucas did a good job on updated versions of the original "Star Wars" and currently Paramount Pictures has brought new fans into the fold by showing an updated FX version of the original "Star Trek" series.
Instead of remakes,I think this is the way to go.

Director for "Escape" remake?
 

Breck Eisner Making Escape From New York
Source: Heat Vision, Variety
April 23, 2010


The Crazies helmer Breck Eisner will direct New Line/Warner Bros. remake Escape From New York.

Gerard Butler had been attached to play Snake Plissken in 2007, but left over creative differences. Plissken is a convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists.

The 1981 original starred Kurt Russell and was written and directed by John Carpenter. A follow-up, Escape from L.A., was released in 1996.

The new version mixes an origin story for the anti-hero and merges it with the story of the first film.

The script was written by Ken Nolan, David Kajganich and Allan Loeb. Neal H. Moritz's Original Films and Canal Plus are behind the project.

Well, there goes any chance of this being watchable. Not that an Escape from NY remake had much going for it in the first place.

Don't worry. The rights have not been secured. This flick won't happen unless Carpenter says so.

That sounds like awful idea. Those special editions of Star Wars looked dumb as fuck. I prefer the original ones before they were tampered with.

Lucas is a moron about this. He completely destroyed his own film TXH 1138 by adding terribly done cgi to it that actually changed the meaning of the story. And there is no original release available.

Great news, but what makes you say this? They've been talking about it for years like its pretty much set in stone. Anything I can find seems like they have the go ahead?

Either way, nothing stopped him from letting his other works get bastardized.

I know John.

New Line and Warners Give Up on Snake Plissken


If eye patch-wearing antihero Snake Plissken is going to slither in a reboot, it won't be at New Line and Warner Bros.

They've allowed the option to drop on a remake of Escape From New York that they've been developing, meaning that the reboot of the John Carpenter-directed 1981 classic is up for grabs.

The original starred Kurt Russell as Snake, a tough convict dropped into a futuristic New York that has been turned into a post-apocalyptic maximum security prison. He's charged with rescuing the president (Donald Pleasence), who is held hostage by the prison kingpin (Isaac Hayes) after his plane within the city walls. Snake's offered a pardon if he's successful, but fitted with a lethal device that will kill him if he tries to run or misses the deadline.

New Line and producer Neal Moritz have been working on the reboot, most recently with The Crazies helmer Breck Eisner attached to direct, and a script by writers that include Allan Loeb and X-Men: First Class scribe Jamie Moss.

Joel Silver, Studio Canal To Reboot John Carpenter’s ‘Escape From New York’

http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/joel...from-new-york/