Home > Creative Content > Movies The package, based on the Kurt Russell sci-fi action classic, will hit studios and steamers in the coming weeks “300” filmmaker Zack Snyder is attached to write and direct a remimagining of John Carpenter’s cult classic “Escape From New York” for Studiocanal and The Picture Company, TheWrap has learned. The package, based on the Kurt Russell sci-fi action classic, will hit the studios and steamers in the coming weeks. “Escape from New York” is a 1981 independent