“Scream” and “Ready or Not” directing team Radio Silence are reportedly in talks to potentially direct the long-gestating “Escape from New York” remake. Giant Freakin Robot broke the story and indicated that Kurt Russell is set to star in the project.
Bloody Disgusting has followed that up saying their sources have indicated that the filmmakers (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella) are in very early conversations about the directing gig but nothing set in stone at this time.
They add that Russell is NOT attached to the project as there’s no script, and the actor hasn’t been contacted.
The original was set in a future where the U.S. had become a totalitarian theocratic police state, and the island of Manhattan is now a walled-off maximum security prison.
Imprisoned former Special Forces officer Robert ‘Snake’ Plissken (Russell) has twenty-four hours to go in, rescue the U.S. President, who is being held by the city prison’s most dangerous crook, and get out again.
Various attempts have been made to remake the property over the years, from a version with Gerard Butler as Snake Plissken to a more recent one with Leigh Whannell attached to pen the script.
Radio Silence is currently at work on the sixth “Scream” film, which is due in cinemas in March.
