Banlieue battles

Banlieue 13 (English: District 13) was released in 2004 set in a Paris of the near-future where the suburbs are essentially cordoned off by the paramilitary police, as in Escape From New York.  With eerie prescience, like Ghost Town by The Specials in 1981 within the British setting for disturbances, the film foreshadowed the 2005 French riots.  With justification, writer and producer Luc Besson could release the sequel Banlieue 13: Ultimatum in the very year (2010) that the original was supposed to have taken place (three years on from its predecessor) . The parkour scenes in both films are incredible - no wires or CGI.  But still 2013 has now passed and the French government has yet to launch 'precision' bombing strikes as Ultimatum depicted.
This doesn't mean things are all rosy.  Social unrest has normalised to the extent that the interior minister was quite upbeat reporting on the New Year 'celebrations', where only 1,067 vehicles were set alight, three people murdered, five policeman injured and 322 people arrested - upbeat because the figures were down for the same period last year.  The scenario in Escape From New York and indeed in The Warriors, was tackled by Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his zero-tolerance campaign cleaning up Time Square et al.  French interior ministers, Nicolas Sarlozy and Dominque de Villepin, have tried similar crackdowns and failed.  Maybe because the malaise hasn't extended to the heart of the city as it had in New York, the determination to integrate the disenfranchised masses on the periphery isn't as wholehearted as it should be and merely focuses on punishing ne'er-do-wells.  London, Birmingham and Manchester had its problems with riots in 2011, but that was mainly opportunism from people who didn't care about the social order, not so much disenfranchised as brought up with a sense of entitlement that they could take what they liked, though communal tensions also existed.  Stockholm too has suffered riots.  But it has always quietened down afterwards - maybe for those living in the affected areas in seething despair, yet burnt out nonetheless.  In France, however, a remake of Banlieue 13  (I can't see there being a trilogy, given the sequel's ending) would not be too preposterous.