“Escape From New York” post apocalyptic classic remake plannedMarch 19, 2013 - 19:16 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Silver Pictures has made a deal with Studio Canal to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 post-apocalyptic classic “Escape From New York”, TheWrap said. Silver is planning an entirely new take on the material with a trilogy of films, the first of which will serve as an origin story. Studio Canal, a longtime partner of Silver Pictures and financier of such Silver pictures as "Unknown" and upcoming Liam Neeson starrer "Non-Stop," controls the rights to the film and will finance development before finding a home at a studio. The original was about a future where New York City has become a giant maximum security prison, into which the president of the U.S. crashes. Kurt Russell, as ex-soldier Snake Plissken, is given 24 hours to find and save him. Made for $6 million, it brought in more than $245 million, and was followed in 1996 by the sequel "Escape from L.A.," also starring Russell. A 2007 remake starring Gerard Butler never got off the ground. No writer or director has yet been attached to the new project. Joel Silver and Andrew Rona will produce, with Silver executive vice president Alex Heineman executive producing. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |