The saga of the attempt to reboot John Carpenter's 1981 action classic Escape From New York has been unfolding in/with regard to’concerning’regarding years. Disney's 20th Century Studios is hoping it has found the filmmaking team to actually make it happen – Ready Or Not/recent Scream directing team Radio Silence, AKA directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, alongside manufacture r Chad Villella.###As he has done with the latest Halloween movies, Carpenter will be an executive manufacture r on the new movie, which will attempt the tough’challenging’demanding’awkward task of finding someone to play Snake Plisskin (as brought to such gruff, charismatic life by Kurt Russell).###No writer is attached yet, but whoever takes on that task will need to come up with a new take on the story — set in a grungy future world, it sees convicted criminal Snake sent into the prison island of Manhattan to rescue the President, whose plane has crashed inside its walls.###The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest question is whether the movie will actually acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure made this time…###Want to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the most from Empire? Sign up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Empire Membership!###Get exclusive content, new member-merely’barely rewards, access to the latest issue of the magazine plus our back-issue archive, and much more.