New Line not moving ahead with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK reboot

If you were looking forward to the Escape from New York reboot that New Line and Warner Bros have been working on, you will have to wait for a long time. The studios will not be moving forward on their option to revive the John Carpenter classic. The original 1981 film starred Kurt Russell as Snake, a tough convict dropped into a futuristic New York that has been turned into a post-apocalyptic maximum security prison. He's charged with rescuing the president (Donald Pleasence), who is held hostage by the prison kingpin (Isaac Hayes) after his plane within the city walls. Snake's offered a pardon if he's successful, but fitted with a lethal device that will kill him if he tries to run or misses the deadline.

Neal Moritz and New Line have been working on the reboot, most recently with Breck Eisner (The Crazies) attached to direct, and a script by writers that include Allan Loeb and X-Men: First Class scribe Jamie Moss. It looks as though Eisner and Moritz will instead move forward on Flash Gordon at Warner Bros. Eisner also is attached to The Last Witch Hunter at Summit.

I personally am not too upset that this is not being remade. I would have liked to see a new take on the classic, but am just filne knowing that for now, Russell will remain the vision for me of Snake. What are your thoughts?