The Three Sins Of Remaking ‘Escape From New York’
Yesterday, Deadline broke the news that producer Joel Silver and Studio Canal are planning to revisit the world of John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York” with a new trilogy that kicks off with a Snake Plissken origin story. (Let us know when you emerge from your rage coma.)
Needless to say the news was met with the enthusiasm of about five “Escape from L.A.”s, and the fans cried out. How could the money grubbing studio execs do this? Isn’t anything sacred? To answer your questions in order: because they can, and no.
Even though this is just par for the course with Hollywood, an “Escape…
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