{"id":708677,"date":"2026-06-01T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:13:10","slug":"zack-snyder-to-direct-escape-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708677\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder To Direct &#8220;Escape from New York&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zack-snyder-to-direct-escape-from-new-york.jpg\" data-caption=\"Embassy Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/zack-snyder-to-direct-escape-from-new-york.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"zack-snyder-to-direct-escape-from-new-york\"\/><\/a>Embassy Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice League\u201d and \u201c300\u201d director Zack Snyder is set to write and direct a reimagining of the 1981 John Carpenter classic \u201cEscape from New York\u201d set up at StudioCanal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/zack-snyder-escape-from-new-york-remake-1236610684\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a> broke the news, indicating the film package is currently being put together and will be taken out to market in the coming weeks.  Plans are for a theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>The original film\u2019s story is set in a future where the U.S. had become a totalitarian theocratic police state, and the island of Manhattan is now a walled-off maximum security prison.<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned former Special Forces officer \u2018Snake\u2019 Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty-four hours to go in, rescue the U.S. President who is being held by the city prison\u2019s most dangerous crook, and get out again.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder\u2019s take is said to be a \u201cmore down and dirty movie\u201d than usual for him, with plenty of practical effects and locations, much like his \u201cDawn of the Dead\u201d remake in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement marks the first serious movement on a remake\/reboot of the property in years after multiple failed attempts with filmmakers like Radio Silence, Leigh Whannell, Robert Rodriguez, Len Wiseman, Brett Ratner, Breck Eisner, and \u201cLuther\u201d creator Neil Cross all involved at different points.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce though their deal at StudioCanal.  Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller also produce while Carpenter executive produces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Embassy Pictures \u201cJustice League\u201d and \u201c300\u201d director Zack Snyder is set to write and direct a reimagining of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112110,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-708677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}