‘Escape From New York’ Remake will be directed by ‘The Crazies’ Director

Breck Eisner, the director of the  remake “The Crazies,” is in negotiations to helm the remake of “Escape From New York” for New Line.

The remake has been a top priority for the studio, which picked up the rights in March 2007, with Gerard Butler attached to star and Ken Nolan writing the script. The project then went into development hell, losing Butler but amassing a penal colony of writers, among them Jonathan Mostow and Allan Loeb, and collecting then losing director Len Wiseman.

The studio is going to stick with the Allan Loeb script, which is a mix of an origin story for anti-hero Snake Plissken and merge it with the story of the 1981 original.

Now our own El Mayimbe himself has read the script and says “Its a Trainwreck.”

John Carpenter’s 1981 original film was set in a futuristic 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted (Snake Plissken) bank robber is sent in for a rescue.