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Russell is reteaming with the filmmakers who made the original Escape from New York--writer-director John Carpenter and producer Debra Hill--to executive produce a new hourlong syndicated TV version, according to the Hollwood Reporter.
In the 1981 sci-fi cult classic, Snake--condemned criminal and former war hero--wins his freedom by rescuing the President from a group of convicts after his plane is shot down over New York, which has been turned into a giant penal colony. Russell and company want the new series to introduce a new generation of fans to the character he made famous in the original and its 1996 sequel, Escape from L.A.
"It's exciting to reinvent a movie for a whole new generation of people," Hill tells the Reporter. "It's exciting to try to figure out a way to keep that story line going for 100 episodes."
Russell will not be acting in the series, however. Producers are already searching for a new Snake in hopes to have the show to debut sometime in the 2001 television season.
The small-screen version of Escape will still be set in a 21st century decimated by man-made catastrophes and surrounded by hardened criminals. This time around, though, Snake won't be running around saving politicans or their daughters from metropolitans-turned-prisons.
Instead, he'll have a more permanent job working for the President as a roving agent for the U.N., visiting surviving cities around the world and helping to bring normalcy to the devastated populace. But ultimately he must stay alive to defeat his nemesis, Police Commissioner Bob Hauk (played by Lee Van Cleef in the original).
And if the new Snake catches on, Hill says she and Carpenter would consider shooting another feature with Russell in the lead.
With New York and L.A. already proving escapable, the third installment would be a bit more challenging. The next time out, the long-in-the-tooth Snake and his charges would be pulling an Escape from Earth.
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