I couldn’t find any credible evidence that a film titled Escape from Alcatraz (2025) — with a new plot, starrings such as Jason Statham or Morgan Freeman, or a modern “reimagining” — actually exists. Many of the online “summaries” seem to come from dubious movie-site pages or social media claims, which is a strong sign the 2025 version is a hoax or fan-made fabrication.
✅ What we do know: the original “Escape from Alcatraz”
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The real, well-known film is the 1979 version directed by Don Siegel — it chronicles the true-inspired 1962 escape from the island prison Alcatraz Island.
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In that film: Frank Lee Morris (played by Clint Eastwood), along with two brothers John Anglin and Clarence Anglin (and another inmate), meticulously plan and execute a daring prison-break: digging through walls with improvised tools, fashioning dummy heads to fool the guards, and escaping on a makeshift raft built from raincoats.
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The film ends ambiguously: the escape appears successful — their dummy heads remain in bed, the raft traces vanish — but no bodies are ever recovered, leaving their ultimate fate unknown.
⚠️ Why the “2025 version” is almost certainly not real
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Major film databases and credible industry sources have no record of a 2025 release of “Escape from Alcatraz.”
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Descriptions of a 2025 remake — with Statham, Freeman, Johansson, etc. — appear exclusively on unverified websites or social media posts, often with sensational language. A post on a Facebook page claiming to promote a 2025 version was flagged as part of widespread misinformation.
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A trailer circulating on YouTube appears to be a fan-made concept/teaser, not a studio-produced film.
What to watch out for
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Some of the “2025 plot summaries” describe a very different story: a former soldier wrongfully imprisoned, modernized prison technologies, conspiracies, legal-rights-lawyer characters, etc. Those seem to diverge completely from the known history or story of the real escape.
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Because these versions exist only on unsourced “movie blogs,” they lack the support or record you would expect from a real film (no industry articles, no official trailers from recognized studios, no credit listings in public film registries).
