{"id":9972,"date":"2026-06-01T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:06:30","slug":"zack-snyder-to-write-and-direct-escape-from-new-york-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/zack-snyder-to-write-and-direct-escape-from-new-york-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder To Write And Direct Escape From New York Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zack-snyder-to-write-and-direct-escape-from-new-york-remake.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>For years now, the pursuit of an _Escape From New York_remake has been a fool&#8217;s errand. To write one is impossible. To direct one is insane. Len Wiseman was going to tackle it in 2007 with Gerard Butler. Joel Silver wanted to make a whole trilogy in the mid-2010s. Just a few short years ago, Radio Silence signed on to bring Snake Plissken back. But now, per <em>THR<\/em>&#8216;s reporting, it appears that Zack Snyder is set to be the man to go in and remake John Carpenter&#8217;s dystopian cult classic.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>THR<\/em>, Snyder \u2014 who&#8217;s most recently been working on low-budget passion project <em>The Last Photograph<\/em> after the high-profile releases of his <em>Justice League<\/em> and <em>Rebel Moon<\/em> movies \u2014 is aboard to write and direct &#8216;a reimagining&#8217; of Carpenter&#8217;s 1981 action flick. For those who may not know, <em>Escape From New York<\/em> was set in a dystopian future where the isle of Manhattan had been turned into a maximum security prison. In the OG film, Kurt Russell starred as tattooed, eye-patch wearing anti-hero Snake Plissken, a disgraced former military hero sent on a one-man-<em>Suicide-Squad<\/em> style mission to enter the island and extract the crash-landed President of the United States. Part character piece, part black comedy, all post-Vietnam\/Watergate individualism and anti-establishment sentiment, <em>Escape From New York<\/em> oozes a cool and an idiosyncrasy filmmakers have been looking to replicate ever since. That Snyder&#8217;s version, which will have Carpenter aboard as Executive Producer, is being eyed for theatrical release by StudioCanal is a promising sign that <em>maybe<\/em> someone has finally cracked a modern take on the source material.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know who&#8217;ll be in Snyder&#8217;s <em>Escape From New York<\/em> just yet, just as we don&#8217;t know when his <em>The Last Photograph<\/em> will reach our screens. What we do know however is that Snyder has previous for reinvigorating long-since considered untouchable classics (hello <em>Dawn Of The Dead<\/em>!), sources suggest the <em>300<\/em> filmmaker is opting for a &#8216;down-and-dirty&#8217; approach to the material, and we are very interested to see what his vision of Carpenter&#8217;s movie will look like. And, of course, who will be playing Snake Plissken. Our eyepatches are at the ready, and our stick-on cobra tattoos are waiting. Give us a call!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-links-container\" data-test=\"source-links\">\n<h2 class=\"sourceUrl_h2__0dV2J\">Sources Links<\/h2>\n<p>THR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, the pursuit of an _Escape From New York_remake has been a fool&#8217;s errand. To write one is impossible. To direct one is insane. Len Wiseman was going to tackle it in 2007 with Gerard Butler. Joel Silver wanted to make a whole trilogy in the mid-2010s. 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