[reboot theater] Escape from New York

[CeeKay]

Snake Plissken may be returning, this time as part of a trilogy.

Studio Canal, which partnered with Silver on the Liam Neeson action films Unknown and Non-Stop and the upcoming Sean Penn-starrer Prone Gunman, has entrusted Silver with the rights. Silver is planning an entirely new take on the material. The goal is to turn it into a trilogy, starting with an origin story in a fashion similar to the way Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes restarted that franchise. Studio Canal will finance development of the project before placing it with a studio. A writer search is underway.

if they're going to do this they should just skip remaking Escape and do three original stories instead of retelling what has already been done.

[hepcat]

I rewatched the sequel, Escape from Los Angeles a few months ago after it showed up on my DVR thanks to Tivo's "suggestion" feature.  

...it was not good.  I had honestly forgotten how absolutely horrid it was.  The original is a timeless classic though.

[Moliere]

The original is a timeless classic though.

How long since you saw this timeless classic? Too often my memory of books and movies doesn't hold up years later (e.g., the Dragonlance books I so enjoyed in high school).

[metallicorphan]

I rewatched the sequel, Escape from Los Angeles a few months ago after it showed up on my DVR thanks to Tivo's "suggestion" feature.  

...it was not good.  I had honestly forgotten how absolutely horrid it was.  The original is a timeless classic though.

I just watched both of them a month or two back,and yeah the second is still quite shit...the basketball scene is still good though,the surfing scene...hmm,not so good

The first still holds up decently enough,and yeah it also had Adrienne Barbeau 

The problem for me is not the story for this remake,its all down to who will fill Snake's boots instead of Kurt Russell,right now i can not think of anyone who i would like to see as Snake,except Kurt Russell,and i guess he is too old 

[CeeKay]

The problem for me is not the story for this remake,its all down to who will fill Snake's boots instead of Kurt Russell,right now i can not think of anyone who i would like to see as Snake,except Kurt Russell,and i guess he is too old 

Karl Urban seems to be doing pretty good at filling other peoples boots nowadays.

[hepcat]

I could see Urban doing it. 

In the first one, Russell is just effortlessly Snake.  You know he's a badass because of what he DOESN'T say or do.  In the second one, they make his badassery into a caricature almost (the surfing, the hang gliding, etc.).  If they follow that formula they could make it work with Urban. 

Escape from New York will always hold a special place in my heart.  It was one of those films I saw at an honest to god drive in with my dad and some grade school friends.  I own the dvd (need to upgrade to blu ray someday on that one) and rewatch it every year or so.  It holds up surprisingly well.

[metallicorphan]

Karl Urban is better than the names mentioned in that link at least anyway

It would be interesting if the remake is popular and which way they would go for a sequel(i know i am getting ahead of myself here)

I had forgotten about the handgliding scene Hep..oh and the silly end with the EMP thing across the globe thing,but as bad as EFLA was,you know i still would of been up for a third film

Karl Urban's name reminds me that i still need to watch Dredd

[hepcat]

You should have watched it in the theater, damn it!  Maybe then we'd have been closer to a franchise!!    

...but teasing aside, you'll enjoy it.  It's a pretty damn good adaptation of the comic books.