in november  reports cited jeremy renner as being in talks to play snake plissken in july  deadline hollywood reported that new line and warner bros had dropped the option to remake the film allowing other studios to potentially option it on march   joel silver and his studio company silver pictures teamed with studiocanal to reboot the film as a trilogy starting with an origin story in a fashion similar to the way rise of the planet of the apes restarted that franchise on february   collider interviewed silver about the film saying that the films script is inspired by the video game batman arkham city on january   th century fox won the bid for the film rights of the remake with andrew rona and alex heinemans the picture company will produce on october   neil cross was announced to write the films script according to the wraps umberto gonzalez fox wants to relaunch the film as what they did with planet of the apes and the details of the film are that new york city won’t be a maximum security prison snakes real name and a new villain in march  it was announced that robert rodriguez will direct the remake with j