BOOM! Studios announced it will be releasing a comic series based on the cult-classic film Escape from New York, debuting in December.
 
The series will be written by Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Dead Letters), with an artist to be named later.  The two covers pictured here are by Tim Bradstreet and Riley Rossmo.
 
Released in 1981, the John Carpenter sci-fi/action flick was set in the (then) near future of 1997, when after rampant crime and a natural disaster, Manhattan has been turned into a maximum-security prison for lifers.  But when Air Force One crashes on the island, ex-special forces soldier turned rebel Snake Plissken is given a deal that if he can rescue the President from the island, he’ll receive a pardon.  The trick is that he has 22 hours to do it, before the President’s captors execute him.
 
The film was a commercial hit at the time, spawned a 1996 sequel Escape from L.A., and has since become a cult classic.  The character also appeared in a comic miniseries in 2003, John Carpenter’s Snake Plissken Chronicles, which was later released as a trade paperback by Alias Comics (see "Alias to Release Snake Plissken Chronicles").  There have been numerous attempts to remake the movie, but none have come to fruition (see "'Escape from New York' Stalls" and "Say It Isn't So Dept.: 'Escape From New York' Trilogy").