Побег из Нью-Йорка (Escape From New York)

Ли Уоннелл в интервью JoBlo

It was announced last February that SAW and INSIDIOUS co-creator and THE INVISIBLE MAN writer/director Leigh Whannell is attached to write a reboot of John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. And today the UPGRADE filmmaker updated us on the remake saying that casting Kurt Russell's son Wyatt Russell (OVERLORD) as new Snake Plissken is "the obvious thing to win the fans over." Specifically, Whannell says:

[Casting Wyatt Russell] seems like the obvious thing to win the fans over.

Whannell is said to be kickstarting the remake with a new vision that will retain elements of the original but bring new ideas to the table. One of his goals is to avoid the path that all but killed other 1980's reboots such as ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL. He adds:

It's funny, I've been so busy working on this film where I haven't had time to circle back around on that project. Sometimes these press releases go out before you're ready, you're like, 'Don't tell the world!' I don't actually know, I really don't. That is an iconic character and I think that Snake Plissken is a part of people's childhood and their adolescence. It's near and dear to them. So I would tread very carefully with that.

Finally, he says:

I feel like a property like that doesn't have the same freedom as maybe something like The Invisible Man does. He has more elasticity as a character because so many people have had their fingerprints on that. There's been TV shows and comic books, whereas with Escape from New York, we're talking about one definitive movie here and you don't want to mess with it. We'll see what happens.

"Побег..." без Курта Рассела - деньги на ветер.

Уоннелл же говорит, что очевидным выбором является сын Курта, Уайатт

лучше не придумаешь. Привет Айвери. Замкнутый круг прекрасности

Портал Bloody Disgusting пишет, что режиссерами могут стать Мэтт Беттинелли и Тайлер Джиллетт, ответственные за новые «Крики»

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Hot directing team Radio Silence will next direct the reboot of Escape From New York for 20th Century Studios.

 

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman will produce the film along with Radio Silence. Original filmmaker John Carpenter will serve as executive producer of the film. The film is a Studiocanal library title and the French company will hold distribution rights to the film in several territories. The Picture Company has an overall deal with Studiocanal.

 

Word is quiet on the approach for the film, but sources say a writer search is underway.

 

Radio Silence is made up of filmmaking team Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella. Radio Silence’s last film a relaunch of the the Scream franchise was a massive hit for Paramount which went on to gross $140M WW and was also critically acclaimed, the team just wrapped the next chapter in the Scream series which will hit theaters next year. They also made the critical hit Ready Or Not for Searchlight Pictures.

Тайлер Джиллетт и Чад Виллелла в интервью Entertainment Weekly

Asked about the status of Radio Silence's reboot, Villella described the project as still being in the "very, very early stages."

 

"We're very excited to be working with 20th Century on that," he continued. "We're developing our take, and hopefully, it will be going to script sometime in the New Year, and just really starting to lay the groundwork for that. But very early stages."

 

So is the plan for the new movie to be a sequel or a remake?

 

"Not a remake," said Gillett. "That's one of those properties that you can't [remake], it's sort of untouchable to us, and lives in its own stratosphere in terms of how important it is to us, and how much we love it. So it'll be not unlike Scream, I think, a nod to, and a continuation of, what we love about those characters and that world."

Портал Bloody Disgusting пишет, что режиссерами могут стать Мэтт Беттинелли и Тайлер Джиллетт, ответственные за новые «Крики»

что то проморгал. Уоннел продинамил такой проджект

So is the plan for the new movie to be a sequel or a remake?

 

"Not a remake," said Gillett. "That's one of those properties that you can't [remake], it's sort of untouchable to us, and lives in its own stratosphere in terms of how important it is to us, and how much we love it. So it'll be not unlike Scream, I think, a nod to, and a continuation of, what we love about those characters and that world."

что, и здесь "Хэллоуин 2018"?

New Escape From New York Movie to Be a Requel According to Radio Silence Directors

While chatting with ComicBook.com's Chris Killian, the duo also talked about another upcoming project, the Escape From New York reboot they're making with their fellow creative, Chad Villella. However, it sounds like fans can officially stop using the term "reboot" and start using "requel" when it comes to the new Escape From New York.

"It's a great question. I don't think we know enough about the movie yet to be able to say anything, but yes 'requel' is the idea," the directors shared with Killian when asked if the movie would be a requel that could involve Escape From New York star, Kurt Russell. "There's no way to remake how great that movie is, would be a fool's errand to try. So, you know, we'll try to borrow what we love from it and find a new way to put the package together."