Escape from New York is Still Getting Remade. Sigh.

In Hollywood ’s continuing drive to ruin everything that ’s skillful , the remake of John Carpenter ’s urban scifi classic is moving forward with a new director on control panel .

For the record , Breck Eisner is a effective managing director . The Crazies was full of style and creep , and while Sahara was horrible , it ’s unclear how much of that was his fault . So what gives us pause about the news that Eisner ’s signed on for New Line ’s remake of the Kurt Russell swaggerathon is n’t Eisner — it ’s that the remake is proceed at all . See , we were kinda hoping it was dead , particularly when Gerard Butler — who has squandered his geek goodwill like nobody ’s business — was cash in one’s chips to asterisk .

But the nouveau Escape from New York is back , reconfigured as something of a prequel which will recount Snake Plisskin ’s origin story while dovetailing with the President ’s crash on the prison house island of Manhattan . The $ 50 million question is : Who really wants to know where Snake Plisskin came from ? The beauty of that character was that he just emerged , fully formed , from the haze of urban myth and combat legend with an elusive backstory only spoken of , but never see … and nothing ruins myth or legend faster than explicate it .

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