As you hopefully recall, we
reported yesterday on the at least slightly dubious rumor that Paramount recently held a high-level meeting about making another Snake Plissken movie --
Escape from Earth, based on an old
John Carpenter screenplay. No one really knew if the anonymous tipster's story was reliable or not until AICN rumor-king
Harry Knowles Moriarty jumped on the email horn and checked in with Carpenter and his wife/producer Sandy King to get some answers. And, in short,
it's not happening. As it happens, though, Carpenter actually
was very busy last week, just not with Paramount. According to King, her husband "spent a rousing week playing Tom Clancy's war video games and smoking in his favorite chair and eating fried chicken." Man. So that's what life is like for John Carpenter? Can I be a legendary screenwriter/director/composer, too?
Tags: cinematical, Escape from Earth, Escape from New York, film, John Carpenter, JohnCarpenter, Kurt Russell, KurtRussell, movie, Snake Plissken, SnakePlissken
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8-08-2006 @ 12:42PM
Alex Keen said...
Pssst... Moriarty not Harry Knowles. :)
Yeah that "three-picture deal" thing sounded strange to me yesterday too. Silly e-mail liars.
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8-08-2006 @ 1:23PM
Martha Fischer said...
DOH! Thanks Alex, it's fixed.
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8-08-2006 @ 1:55PM
The Jeremy said...
Carpenter is too busy modifying his "da da da" signature guitar riff that he has used in every damn one of his films since *They Live* to be bothered with drafting a new version of the *Escape from Earth* screenplay.
Maybe "riff" is the wrong term. Excuse me, "three notes".
Sheesh, he could accomplish both tasks simultaneously with a new MacBook by firing up GarageBand AND Final Draft at the same time... :)
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