Overview
- Snyder outlined his creative approach on the Happy Sad Confused podcast Thursday and confirmed he is writing and directing a new Escape From New York.
- He says the film will be set in 1997 as imagined from 1981 and that the inciting conflict begins on July 9, 1981, the original movie’s release date.
- StudioCanal and The Picture Company are producing with Snyder’s Stone Quarry partners while John Carpenter is attached as an executive producer.
- Snyder hinted he may already have an actor in mind for Snake Plissken and said Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been actively lobbying him for a role.
- The project has a long, stop‑start development history and remains in active development with no release date or confirmed cast announced.