Whereas not an excessive amount of is understood concerning the new upcoming Escape From New York movie from the filmmaking collective Radio Silence, the group has confirmed that the movie is a “requel” — at the very least, in its early levels.
Chatting with Comicbook.com, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — two-thirds of the collective — revealed that the upcoming movie isn’t absolutely fleshed out but, however is a “requel” because it stands.
“It’s an ideal query. I don’t assume we all know sufficient concerning the film but to have the ability to say something, however sure ‘requel’ is the thought,” the administrators stated. “There’s no approach to remake how nice that film is, could be a idiot’s errand to strive. So, you recognize, we’ll attempt to borrow what we love from it and discover a new approach to put the package deal collectively.”
Their newest feedback echo that of what they stated late final yr, after they confirmed that the movie wouldn’t be a remake by any means, and that the movie is solely “a kind of properties you could’t” redo, calling the unique movie “untouchable” in a dialog with Leisure Weekly.
“Not a remake,” stated Gillett on the time. “That’s a kind of properties you could’t [remake], it’s form of untouchable to us, and lives in its personal stratosphere when it comes to how necessary it’s to us, and the way a lot we adore it. So it’ll be not not like Scream, I feel, a nod to, and a continuation of, what we love about these characters and that world.”
The unique 1981 John Carpenter basic was set in a future (then 1997) the place Manhattan had been was an island-sized maximum-security jail. When the president of the USA crashes into the decaying metropolis, an outlaw (performed by Kurt Russell) is coerced into touring inside to rescue him.
