It mightiness not travel arsenic a astonishment to you that immoderate net denizens are not precisely overjoyed with the thought of a remake of the 1981 John Carpenter classical Escape From New York. It's the latest effort to remake the classical sci-fi flick, this clip with Zack Snyder connected committee to direct.
I get it. I emotion the movie, too, and I recognize wherefore radical don’t spot immoderate crushed for this classical starring Kurt Russell (maybe his best collab with Carpenter) ever to beryllium remade. Still, if I’m honest, immoderate of the reactions are beauteous implicit the top. Here are a fewer comments I’ve recovered successful the days since the remake was archetypal announced.
The Director Is Taking Some Heat
Zack Snyder is simply a polarizing director. Some emotion his enactment and person gone truthful acold arsenic to enactment distant a monolithic run that lasted for years to merchandise “The Snyder Cut” of Justice League. That worked, and his fans emotion it. Others are, let’s conscionable say, little enthusiastic astir the manager taking a plaything astatine Escape from New York. Redditor r/JWitjes commented:
Zack Snyder directing Escape from New York, present there's a existent fearfulness story.
Another Redditor, appropriately named r/CancelThis2077 wrote:
How creatively bankrupt is Hollywood that Escape from NY needs a remake, and that Zack Snyder would beryllium the 1 to nonstop it?
Synder directing wasn't the lone quality that fans of the OG movie took purpose astatine though. 
Kurt Russell Can't Be Replaced As Snake Plissken
There is nary question that Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken is 1 of the champion sci-fi characters of each time. He's a antheral of enactment and fewer words (and adjacent less moving eyeballs). Many fans accidental helium conscionable can't beryllium replaced by anyone successful the role. X idiosyncratic @RealBSP3, commenting on a post by @Nerdcognito, wrote:
Nobody has Kurt Russell energy.I'm not going to effort to ticker idiosyncratic other capable his shoes.Highlander is pushing it. This is implicit the edge.June 13, 2026
He wasn't alone, of course. Redditor r/Suitable_Community66 wrote:
Kurt Russell is simply irreplaceable successful this role.
Many critics of the thought of an Escape from New York remake simply don't similar the thought of remaking classics
Why Mess Up A Classic?
Finally, the past radical of radical unhappy with the thought are radical who emotion the movie and deliberation a remake would lone flop, oregon worse, tarnish the estimation of the original. Responding to the quality connected X, @jordanjabroni summed it up beauteous simply:
This is rather perchance the worst quality ever. https://t.co/jgEkvYhRzfJune 1, 2026
Another station connected X responding to the quality had a harsh instrumentality not conscionable connected the Escape from New York remake, but connected each remakes:
IMO the lone purposes for these reboots is to nullify the originals. Sure immoderate are good, but judging by the Disney / Netflix / Amazon worldly it's mostly a twisted mentation of thing radical emotion truthful they tin go hostile oregon astatine slightest indifferent to it ...skeptical lolJune 13, 2026
That was hardly the lone akin thought connected the thought of remaking movies:
Don't remake masterpieces, you idiots. Remake movies that had a bully communicative oregon thought but were botched by the manager / shaper / studio.April 13, 2026
If you don’t emotion the thought either, support successful caput that implicit the years determination person been aggregate attempts astatine remaking oregon rebooting Escape From New York. Robert Rodriguez was tapped to remake the movie astir a decennary ago, but it ne'er came to be. Looking backmost done the CinemaBlend archives, determination person been aggregate announcements going backmost to the aboriginal 2010s hyping up remakes, and nary person travel to fruition.
Will Zack Snyder beryllium the 1 to interruption this curse? Time volition tell. We're surely not going to spot it connected the 2026 movie schedule, oregon the 2027 schedule for that matter. In the meantime, you tin rewatch the archetypal with a Prime subscription, which is what I program to do.
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