In recent years, the 1980s has been the go-to decade to look for intellectual property to revive. Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Tron, and Rocky have all gotten the “legacyquel” treatment, while other property like Super Mario Bros. and even He-Man are now the subject of blockbuster films.
One of the most recent 1980s masterpieces to get this treatment is Escape From New York, a dystopian action thriller following criminal Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) as he tries to get the President out of Manhattan, which is now a gigantic maximum-security prison. Now, the project has found the perfect director: a filmmaker with just as strong of a following as John Carpenter, even if he is a little polarizing.
