AICN reports this rumor as false, click here for the story: It has been 25 years since Kurt Russell made his first appearance as the bad ass Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from New York, now it looks like Russell and Carpenter are teaming up once again, this time to leave Earth. Escape From Earth is the title of the third entry to the franchise, according to our anonymous scooper. Inside you can read the unconfirmed scoop, which we'll be looking into this week...
Anonymous writes in:
"A
major meeting was held at Paramount last week with both John Carpenter
and Kurt Russell in attendance. The topic -- preparing for a third
entry in the Snake Plissken chronicles entitled Escape From Earth.
Apparently, Carpenter completed a script for the project eight years
ago but the studio has now taken an interest in it after Russell
demanded doing it before signing on with the studio for a three picture
deal.
Although the screenplay is being kept under tight wraps, I'm told (by
another anonymous) who was lucky enough to take a peek at the first
thirteen pages that the script takes off immediately where the previous
left off and features our planet en-route to Armageddon.
It looks as though Carpenter will push-off the production of Psychopath
with Titan Productions and collaborator Todd Farmer in order to ready
this entry for a 2008 release.In the first film, which takes place in
1998, the US President crashes into Manhattan, which is now a giant
max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.
"A
major meeting was held at Paramount last week with both John Carpenter
and Kurt Russell in attendance. The topic -- preparing for a third
entry in the Snake Plissken chronicles entitled 
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