Deadline is reporting producer Joel Silver (who has produced everything from Veronica Mars to Unknown) wants to do a new Escape From New York trilogy beginning with a Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style origin setting up the post-apocalyptic world and providing the origins of Snake Plissken (who, most likely, will not be played by Kurt Russell)
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting screenwriter Alex Garland (Never Let Me Go, Sunshine) is set to make his directorial debut with Ex Machina which involves the misadventures of a lowly employee babysitting his billionaire employer’s artificially intelligent female robot