Producer Joel Silver Talks Escape From New York Trilogy

A year or so ago news broke out that producer Joel Silver and his production company Silver Pictures and Studio Canal had acquired the rights to John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, but after that initial push, things seemed to have ended.

In a recent interview to Collider about his latest project, Non-Stop, the producer was asked if the script was finished or not:

“No, no we’re not, no we’re not. I mean, it’s funny because we have a relationship with Studio Canal, which somehow ended up with the rights to that, and it has been floating around LA or at least in the development world for a long time.”

And if you think it is a movie that its coming then you are mistaken because the next time we’ll see Snake will be in a trilogy:

“I always liked Kurt’s character, the Snake Plissken character, so I’ve always like that idea, but we kind of figured out a way to do almost a trilogy of that story.”

According to Silver the trilogy will begin with an explanation of Why New York ended up as a prison and how did Snake Plissken ended up as a criminal.

“There was a videogame that came out a few years ago called Arkham City, which shows how when Gotham became this kind of walled prison and how it became a walled prison. And they never deal with that in the story of Escape from New York, so part of our idea was to kind of see how the city became this walled prison and how the Snake Plissken character was a hero and how he became not looked at as a hero. And then, in the middle of the story, would be the movie that we, you know, previously saw about the President’s daughter goes down, he has to go in and get her. And then, you know, they did a sequel, Escape from LA, but I would like to then kind of find a way to have New York go back to a place that we’d like to see what it is today.”

But Silver seems to be taking a more careful approach to this new franchise as he states that they are just starting.

“So there is a way to tell the story in three ways, but we haven’t got there yet and we’re just starting.”

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