By The “Scream VI” and “Ready or Not” team of Radio Silence, aka directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, have revealed they are no longer involved in the upcoming new “Escape from New York” film.
John Carpenter’s classic 1981 dystopian feature was set in a future where the U.S. had become a totalitarian theocratic police state and the island of Manhattan is now a walled-off maximum security prison.
Imprisoned former Special Forces officer Robert ‘Snake’ Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty-four hours to go in, rescue the U.S. President who is being held by the city prison’s most dangerous crook, and get out again.
Radio Silence was attached to the project, a part reboot/part sequel, around a year-and-a-half ago. Now, out promoting the digital release of “Abigail,” they tell ComicBook.com they’re out:
“We are not [attached], unfortunately. I think titles like that bounce around for a while and I think they’ve tried to get that out of the blocks a few times. I think it’s just ultimately a tricky rights issue thing.
There’s a clock on it and we just weren’t in a position to make the clock, ultimately. But who knows? I think, in hindsight, it feels crazy that we would think we would, post-Scream, step into a John Carpenter franchise.
You never know. There’s still interest in it, and we’ve had a few conversations about it, but we’re not attached in any official capacity.”
Leigh Whannell, Robert Rodriguez, and “Luther” creator Neil Cross were all attached to prior incarnations of the project.
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