Will we see the return of Snake Plissken? Allen Loeb hopes so

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a few years ago it looked like a remake of the classic 1980’s sci-fi thriller Escape From New York was on the cards with my fellow Paisley man Gerald Butler to play Snake Plissken (which was played by Kurt Russell in the 1980’s). It was rumoured to be Len Wiseman Directing with Brett Ratner producing, but the rumour mills went into overdrive, Butler was dropped and so was the project due to ‘Creative Differences’.

Roll on 2010 and according to reports from Vulture who say the idea of Escape From New York could now become a possibility thanks to writer Allen Loeb who has apparantley written a script. If you are a big Wall Street movie fan and are so eager to see the second installment you have Allan Loeb to thank as he is the man who got the new movie out of development hell and now its said the script he is written for Escape from NY is so loyal to Snake Plissken’s character as well as helping the movie be made even cheaper than expected!

The problem was not to make snake very camp as he originally was plus the prospect of making Manhattan a giant prison fortress would have been too expensive but they’ve found a route thanks to another post apcoylptic New York based movie.

Thanks to I AM Legend which starred Will Smith Manhattan will be a desolate and completely destroyed city due to a a nearby radioactive fallout or dirtybomb woth the population been evacuated. Snake will still be dropped into the city which has been turned into a prison this time ran by a security firm still from the Statue of Liberty. Snake’s mission looking like been changed from rescuing the president to a female senator with some of the craziest badass criminal running loose around the walled Manhattan island.

This looks easy street compared to the contractual problems NewLine had with John Carpenter with the stipulation of Kurt Russell’s character been a ‘bad-ass’ patch wearing guy who gets called snake. This movie still stands strong nearly 30 years on and though Im excited of a prospect of possibly remaking a classic movie, does the movie need to be remade? will it do any justice, I am on the line with this one like with John Carpenter/Kurt Russell’s other 1980’s soon to be remade/prequeled THE THING. Escape from Los Angeles was just so cheesy but Escape from New York was an classic, so has the boots to play Snake? Will they be as hard as Snake? What director will make this movie worthy to be rebooted? pray to god its not MCG!!!