Snake Plissken Lives! (And Leave Him Alone!)

To put it simply: it's a bad idea. With a couple of notable exception -- the Kurtzman/Orci Star Trek and the Nolan Batmans -- reboots and remakes always seems to end badly. Consider Mission Impossible, Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Halloween, Superman, Bewitched, Psycho, and on and on. And to steal a phrase from the military, when it comes to future projects, like the upcoming A-Team reboot ... confidence is not high.

But once in a while, once in a while you can see a glimmer of hope.  And if Claude Brodesser-Akner's article over at the New York Magazine web site is even half right, there seem to be a slim possibility that  the remake/reboot of John Carpenter's thriller / science fiction / post-apocalypse / action/adventure classic, Escape from New York will not totally suck.  As Claude reports:

"We learned that in order to land the rights, New Line had to sign a contract with John Carpenter stipulating, among other things, that Plissken "must be called 'Snake'"; "must wear an eye patch"; and that he would — and we're not making this up — "always be a 'bad-ass.'"; So, if you ever catch the new Snake watching Grey’s Anatomy or complaining that the senator isn't "emotionally available," just know that somewhere, some poor development exec is about to be carted off to jail."

You can read the details of the reboot here, and buy the original here. And hey, turn that anticipatory frown upside down, lovers of Snake Plisskin! It might turn out okay!

Credit Where Credit is Due Department: First word of the New York column came to us by way of columnist/blogger Sarah Weinman's terrific Twitterfeed and Blog, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.  Well worth bookmarking, following, feeding, and caring for.