{"id":775260,"date":"2026-09-19T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:50:13","slug":"snyders-escape-from-new-york-is-retro-futuristic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775260\/","title":{"rendered":"Snyder’s “Escape from New York” Is Retro-Futuristic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Embassy Pictures<\/p>\n

Still out there promoting his recent film festival title \u201cThe Last Photograph,\u201d director Zack Snyder is talking up other projects he\u2019s been linked to, including the remake of John Carpenter\u2019s \u201cEscape from New York\u201d at Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

In a new conversation with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast, Snyder explains how his take on the Carpenter classic will be set in the same \u2018alternate 1997\u2019 time period as the original:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe approach is for me \u2013 the movie is going to be set in \u201997. It\u2019s from the perspective of 1981. I set the movie \u2013 the war between the United States police force and the criminal elements takes place on July 9, 1981 which is the release date of the original movie. The rest is pretty much Escape From New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus we can expect a retro-futuristic vibe (ala \u201cAlien: Isolation\u201d). He also says he plans to preserve the original film\u2019s mix of tone and social commentary:<\/p>\n

\u201cTalk about a movie that\u2019s the perfect combination of kitsch and camp. It\u2019s all the things, that\u2019s why I love it. But also, it\u2019s [in] a way that\u2019s satire and can get to us. We can make comments about government and all the overreach or whatever you want to call it, the People\u2019s Liberation Front of America, all that stuff is very \u2026 That\u2019s in the headlines. It\u2019s quite current, in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he has an actor in mind to play Snake Pliskin. He says \u201cI may,\u201d but then asked if it\u2019s an actor he has worked with before he adds, \u201cI\u2019m not going to say.\u201d He does add: \u201cHe better look like Snake, or I\u2019ll walk out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also says that his \u201cWatchmen\u201d and \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice\u201d star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been lobbying the filmmaker for a part: \u201cwhether it\u2019s Snake or another [role]. He literally has been hitting me up. He\u2019s the best. I love him. He\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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

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 Still out there promoting his recent film festival title \u201cThe Last Photograph,\u201d director Zack Snyder is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}