‘Escape from New York’ Remake in Development

StudioCanal is teaming with The Picture Company to develop a reimagining of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. Escape from New York was released in 1981 and set in 1997. In the film, “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.” Kurt Russell starred as…

Caroline C Ryan

April 14, 2026

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StudioCanal is teaming with The Picture Company to develop a reimagining of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York.

Escape from New York was released in 1981 and set in 1997. In the film, “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.”

Kurt Russell starred as prisoner Snake Plissken.

In 1996’s Escape from LA, also directed by John Carpenter, “Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.”