Fox Will Bring You ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

 

Moviegoers who are fans of any of the following: 1980s Movie remakes, John Carpenter, 20th Century Fox, or Presidential Rescues will be happy to know that 20th Century Fox has aquired the rights for Escape From New York which has been talked about it seems like since the 1980s. 

Deadline reports:

Fox has emerged from competitive bidding and closed a deal to remake the 1981 John Carptenter-directed cult classic Escape From New York. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company will produce.

[...] There have been remake overtures before, but not with Carpenter involved. New Line tried it with Neal Moritz. It’s the second producing project set up by The Picture Company, after they set Nottingham And Hood at Disney. TPC has a deal with Studiocanal.

Carpenter will Executive Produce with the hopes of turning it into a franchise- the original had a 1996 sequel, Escape From L.A. which was a Box office disaster.

They were also quick to point out that rumors of Pacific Rim and Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam as Snake Plissken were just that- rumor. 
As we enter the last few years of the Neo-80s, it would make sense to have a film like Escape come around.

In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.