Escape From New York Remake is Happening

Snake Plissken is back! Or, he will be… Deadline reported in an exclusive feature that Fox has emerged from competitive bidding and closed a deal to remake the 1981 John Carptenter-directed cult classic Escape From New York. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company will produce.

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Carpenter will be an executive producer and will exert creative influence over the project. Fox’s Mike Ireland brought it in and will steer. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company will produce. The hope is to reinvent the property with an eye toward launching a new franchise.

So now the question is…who should play Snake?