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Fox has nabbed the rights to John Carpenter’s classic “Escape from New York”, according to Deadline.
After a competitive bidding war, Murdoch’s stable emerged as victor; the studio has set Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company to produce a remake of the ’81 classic.
John Carpenter will executive produce the new version.
There have been attempts to get a remake off the ground before, but nobody but Fox has had the smarts to get Carpenter involved.
Though early rumours suggested Charlie Hunnam and Chris Hemsworth were in line to play the new Snake Plissken (the character played by Kurt Russell in the 1981 film and it’s 1996 sequel), Fox are likely to open up the gates to any and all possibilities.
