Escape From New York Reboot Confirmed

A reboot of Escape From New York is present successful the works astatine StudioCanal.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, StudioCanal announced this caller instrumentality connected the 1981 John Carpenter favourite starring Kurt Russell astatine CinemaCon 2026. Escape from New York imagines a satellite circa 1997 successful which Manhatten has been converted into a elephantine maximum information prison.

Interestingly enough, this isn't the archetypal clip StudioCanal has acceptable its sights connected Escape From New York. The institution was antecedently attached to make a reboot franchise with Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures backmost successful 2013. Robert Rodriguez was besides attached to a reboot for 20th Century Studios successful 2017, and Radio Silence successful 2022, but it’s unclear astatine this constituent if immoderate of those attempts person morphed into this newly-announced task oregon conscionable died connected the vine arsenic nary creatives person been announced conscionable yet.

Meanwhile, Paddington 4 was announced to beryllium successful the works by the studio. StudioCanal besides revealed a reboot of Joe Dante’s 1981 movie The Howling, and that it's partnering with Blueprint Pictures connected an adaptation of Matt Haig’s caller The Midnight Library. Finally, StudioCanal announced an archetypal thriller by Sean Byrne and starring Melissa Leo, titled The Mannequin.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.