Whannell further explained how difficult it is to adapt and give justice to such an iconic movie like Escape From New York, and how it differs from his upcoming film The Invisible Man.
He revealed that casting Wyatt Russell might happened because it “seems like the obvious thing to win the fans over.”
There’s been TV shows and comic books, whereas with Escape from New York, we’re talking about one definitive movie here and you don’t want to mess with it.
It has been over a year since it was reported that The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell had been tapped to pen the Escape From New York reboot film, and now Whannell has finally opened up about 20th Century Studios’ upcoming remake of John Carpenter’s iconic 1981 film.