‘Escape from New York’ – Filmmakers Radio Silence Tease Their Vision for the “Requel” Movie

We had learned late last year that filmmaking team Radio Silence (V/H/S, Southbound, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive […]

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‘Escape from New York’ – Radio Silence in Early Talks to Potentially Direct a New Movie

We’ve been hearing about the potential return of Snake Plissken for many years now, the character of course played by Kurt Russell and introduced in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York back in 1981. Carpenter and Russell reunited for sequel Escape from LA in 1996, but we haven’t seen or heard from the one-eyed badass […]

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John Carpenter Says Snake Plissken Deserves “a Third or Maybe Even Fourth Story”

Kurt Russell‘s one-eyed badass Snake Plissken is one of the most iconic characters in film history. He saved the President of the United States in John Carpenter‘s thrilling sci-fi actioneer Escape from New York (1981) and then the POTUS’s daughter in the 1996 sequel Escape from L.A. The dystopian anti-hero is a fan favorite that’s been […]

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