Joel Silver Rebooting ‘Escape From New York’

It looks as though the on again, off again Escape From New York remake/reboot is again in pre-production.

Rights for the property were picked up by Studio Canal after lapsing during New Line Cinema’s financial crisis a few years back. Canal will partner with Joel Silver for the project, which is the fourth partnership between the two (Unknown, Non-Stop, and Prone Gunman being the other three).

According to Deadline, Silver’s goal is to turn the project into a trilogy, with the first film telling the cohesive origin story of Snake Plissken and his post-apocalyptic world.

No other information has been revealed about the project, which is currently in search of a writer. Are you looking forward to the reboot? Who would you like to see in Snake’s shoes? My vote’s on Jason Trost; he’s got the look, and he already owns an eyepatch!

Source: Deadline