Snake is back!
Feb. 13th, 2003 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiAccording to ComicsContinuum, there's going to be a Snake Plisskin (one of my heroes) anime-style movie!
(and for the record, you couldn't pay me to buy the comic they're doing)
At a recent convention in Pasadena, Calif., producer Debra Hill announced the film, which is being targeted for a theatrical release in summer 2004. Hill, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are all involved in the project, which is going to be animated by Production I.G. USA, led by Maki Terashima-Feruta.
Russell will reprise his live-action role for voice work in the film, which has a script by William Wilson and Corey Mitchel. Hill said the script has been turned in and is now being translated for the overseas animators.
A 38-second preview of the anime will be on the upcoming Escape from New York DVD. "It is basically animated," Hill said. "We just have to add the sound effects and Snake's voice. He has a line in it."
The anime will be a different story than the comic book or the other media involved, including a video game and novelizations by Fabian Nicieza.
"We believe that Snake Plissken has many, many adventures in him, and you're going to see lots of different stories" Hill said. "The anime begins after Escape from L.A."
No other actors have been cast yet, but Hill said that shouldn't be difficult.
"It's interesting and the Escape franchise has always been this way," Hill said. "I get calls from actors who want to participate because they love the character, love the franchise, so I think we're going to put together a pretty cool cast."
The film does not have a distributor -- yet.
"Rather than setting up a development deal to have a studio pay for a screenplay to be written we own it," Hill said. "We own the franchise, we own the character and we feel the integrity of the whole project is better. It's a better thing to do to have the ability to do that.
"We're not trying to sell out. We love Snake. We're just trying to re-invent him for what we think is a brand new marketplace in many ways. There's young people who come up and discover the character. As the market changes and so many various forms of media and entertainment change, we want to be able to bring Snake in all of those form to the public."
(and for the record, you couldn't pay me to buy the comic they're doing)
At a recent convention in Pasadena, Calif., producer Debra Hill announced the film, which is being targeted for a theatrical release in summer 2004. Hill, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are all involved in the project, which is going to be animated by Production I.G. USA, led by Maki Terashima-Feruta.
Russell will reprise his live-action role for voice work in the film, which has a script by William Wilson and Corey Mitchel. Hill said the script has been turned in and is now being translated for the overseas animators.
A 38-second preview of the anime will be on the upcoming Escape from New York DVD. "It is basically animated," Hill said. "We just have to add the sound effects and Snake's voice. He has a line in it."
The anime will be a different story than the comic book or the other media involved, including a video game and novelizations by Fabian Nicieza.
"We believe that Snake Plissken has many, many adventures in him, and you're going to see lots of different stories" Hill said. "The anime begins after Escape from L.A."
No other actors have been cast yet, but Hill said that shouldn't be difficult.
"It's interesting and the Escape franchise has always been this way," Hill said. "I get calls from actors who want to participate because they love the character, love the franchise, so I think we're going to put together a pretty cool cast."
The film does not have a distributor -- yet.
"Rather than setting up a development deal to have a studio pay for a screenplay to be written we own it," Hill said. "We own the franchise, we own the character and we feel the integrity of the whole project is better. It's a better thing to do to have the ability to do that.
"We're not trying to sell out. We love Snake. We're just trying to re-invent him for what we think is a brand new marketplace in many ways. There's young people who come up and discover the character. As the market changes and so many various forms of media and entertainment change, we want to be able to bring Snake in all of those form to the public."