It is a minor visual masterpiece that perfectly sets the tone. What really grabbed my attention first was how Escape from New York looked. Now with no other choice, Snake wages a one man war with the inmates of Manhattan. As an added incentive, Snake is injected with a small explosive device that will detonate in 22 hours. Before all of the formalities can even be completed, Snake is tasked by New York Police Commissioner Bob Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) to infiltrate Manhattan and save the president and in return all of Snake’s crimes on record will be cleared. Luckily for him, there’s a new prisoner about to be admitted, the notorious soldier and gunslinger Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell). When terrorists force Air Force One to crash land inside the prison walls, the president (Donald Pleascence) finds himself stranded. In 1988, crime in America rises by almost 400% (remember this was made in 1981) forcing the government to create the United States Police Force and also convert Manhattan into a giant maximum security prison surrounded by giant walls. While both of these movies have something good to offer, Escape from New York is a far superior film than its sequel… depending on what you’re looking for. This was a dark, dystopian thrill ride that was a major hit with audiences and critics alike, which is surprising that it took 15 years for the sequel, Escape from L.A., to finally be produced and released. One of his most respected action movies, and in fact one of the most respected movies of his career, is the 1981 film Escape from New York. He’s also known for more action oriented movies like Assault on Precinct 13 and the comedic Big Trouble in Little China. He’s made some of my favorite horror movies, like Halloween and The Thing amongst others. There was also an anime version of Escape from Earth being tossed around the idea factory, and Kurt Russell would’ve provided the voice of Snake, but this pales in comparison to a 100 episode television series, a live-action movie where Snake Plissken has to get out of Earth because it’s going poorly, and a video game where we get to control one of the wackiest antiheroes in one of the wackiest fictional worlds.To me, John Carpenter is an amazing film maker. Also, I mean, there’d be surfing and basketball and plastic surgery gangs. After the prevalence of Solid Snake, it would’ve been pretty amusing to play the video game version of the movie character that an extremely popular video game character was modeled after. In Metal Gear Solid 2, when Solid Snake was in disguise and we were left to deal with Raiden as our main character, Solid Snake’s cover name was even “Pliskin.” They both share the eyepatch, the gravelly voice, and they both like to smoke whenever they possibly can. The best part of any Escape from video game, is that the immortal Solid Snake is both named, modeled, and voiced after Snake Plissken. However, it would’ve been really fun to count how many things Snake smoked over the course of 100 episodes.įinally, we have an Escape from video game, produced by Namco. Debra Hill, another producer of the series, said it would’ve been “exciting to try to figure out a way to keep that story line going for 100 episodes,” so maybe it’s better that the series never got going, on second thought. Calling Escape from too dark and bleak is no different from calling The Addams Family “too depressing” or “not an obvious comedy.” This Ain’t It Cool News post from way back back in 2000 said that John Carpenter and Kurt Russell were involved as executive producers of the series, though unfortunately, Russell was not slated to reprise the role of Snake. The television series was proposed in the early 2000s, but was turned down by every major network because it was seen as too dark and bleak, which is funny, because that means they completely missed the point of the Escape from series. too much and not New York, Snake not only played basketball by himself to save the world, but he surfed on a tidal wave that was flooding the whole city. ended, one could only assume that he’d be trying to escape Earth because, man, technology was really useful and now it’s gone. ![]() So, going by the title Escape from Earth and how L.A. Yes, he literally ended technology, because he didn’t like that some agency that got him to do their dirty work tricked him into thinking he had a deadly disease when, in fact, it was just the flu. Both John Carpenter and Kurt Russell name-dropped this proposed sequel before the release of Escape from L.A., and as we saw at the end of L.A., ( sthpoilersttthhh) Snake ended technology. First off, it’s vitally important we discuss Escape from Earth.
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