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John Carpenter talks “Escape from New York V2.0”
SuicideGirls spoke to the big man himself, John Carpenter, about New Line’s plans for his “Escape from New York” – and the illustrious horror-meister revealed that he believes it’s a prequel (to his film) that they’re actually doing.
I spoke with Will O’Neil who wrote one of those Snake Plissken comic books a few years ago. He had said that you, Kurt [Russell] and [producer] Debra Hill owned the character of Snake. Is that true?
John Carpenter: Yes, but we share it with Canal Plus. It’s a long story, but the movie was originally made for a company called Avco Embassy. Avco Embassy was sold to Dino De Laurentiis. Dino De Laurentiis sold his share to Canal Plus.
So in this remake they’re talking about…
I don’t know that it’s a remake. I think it’s a lot about Snake before he gets to New York.
But it just made me think that maybe the remake rights might be different than the rights to the character Snake Plissken because none of the articles mentioned you guys being involved with the project. Are you guys going to be credited producers?
Executive producer.
Do you have any desire to be more involved?
My main involvement is I read the scripts and make sure the character is the same character that we wrote originally. I think that would be cool. My other main involvement in this project is to extend my hand and have a check placed in it.
Obviously Snake was a character that was perfect for the time he was in, so do you think Snake will lose the faux mullet?
I don’t know what to do about that. That’s not my decision. Snake is a character who was born out of the 1970’s when New York was having real problems. He came out of a post-Vietnam era and he was an anti-authoritarian. He was a really unique type of character back then. He’ll probably be reinvented for his time. But we’ll see. I don’t know if he will be mullet-less or with the mullet.
The full interview with Carpenter is here.
