Radio Silence Tease Their Vision for 'ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK' "Requel"

Some would say there are certain films that should never be remade. Jaws, The Godfather, or even The Shining. One film that fell into this category was John Carpenter’s ‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’.

Now we’re huge John Carpenter fans and the idea of a remake of this flick had us VERY skeptical but the folks at Radio Silence who are behind the new take on the Kurt Russell classic have stated things aren’t what we feared for the film after all.

The project had originally been described as a “reboot,” but filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett say it’s more of a “requel” in a new chat with ComicBook.com.

“I don’t think we know enough about the movie yet to be able to say anything, but yes ‘requel’ is the idea,” the Radio Silence filmmakers tell the outlet. “There’s no way to remake how great that movie is, would be a fool’s errand to try. So, you know, we’ll try to borrow what we love from it and find a new way to put the package together.”

Kurt Russell‘s involvement in the upcoming “requel” is still up in the air at this time, but it sounds like the idea here is to reboot the franchise rather than remake it from the ground up.

We’ll see what happens with the film and of course bring you the latest when it drops.

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