The original EscapeFromNewYork director JohnCarpenter addresses those plans for a new SnakePlissken film.
Snake Plissken and the dystopian world of Escape from New York is reportedly earning a new installment courtesy of the recent Scream directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, which has largely been shrouded in secrecy, as they are currently working on Scream VI.
When Variety asked Carpenter about whether he will be involved, the filmmaker replied,"No one told me about it. This is the thing about my career in Hollywood -- no one tells me anything. They never tell me things. Have they cast it yet?" After being told how early it was in development and the directors involved, the filmmaker reiterated how detached from such a notion he is, pointing out,"Hey, great. The last I heard was they were developing it where Snake would be a woman.
After seemingly overhearing his remarks, Carpenter's wife Sandy King Carpenter chimed into the conversation, causing Carpenter to clarify,"Apparently, we got an email. My wife tells me we got an email." Carpenter himself delivered the follow-up film Escape from L.A. in 1996, with filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez and Leigh Whannell having been attached as developing new installments at various points in time over the years. Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin were reported as being involved in a new take on the material in November, with the pair offering an update on the status of the project last month.
"Not a remake," Gillett admitted to Entertainment Weekly."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.
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