But the tape ends during it, so I won’t watch it. It would have been nice to see a story that was different to the first film, though.Īfter this, recording continues, and there’s quite a bit of another movie, Mulholland Falls. This was a bit of a mess, frankly, but Kurt Russell is still ridiculously cool, so I can forgive a lot. A sad day for movie fandom as a whole, when people literally throw away their brains to justify their irrational hatred. The President orders Snake killed, but it’s not him, it’s a hologram (nicely established right at the start of the film when Keach and Forbes use them). First they conveniently forgot the true meaning of all kinds of words from plot hole to Mary Sue, now they have forgotten the meaning of homage and inspiration as well. The president really hates his daughter, and has her strapped into an electric chair as he prepares to make a worldwide broadcast. This is the most time sensitive toxin ever devised. Now they’re flying hang gliders – Carpenter really is throwing everything at this, isn’t he? Pam Grier plays Hershe Las Palmas, someone Snake knew from before. Snake meets Peter Fonda again, and after an Earthquake, they surf a Tsunami. Then Jones makes Snake play Basketball, which he’s surprisingly good at for a man with one eye. Snake is captured again, this time by Cuervo Jones, who has got control of an EMP satellite that can shut down all electrical devices anywhere in the world. But she is fairly quickly killed by a random shooter, so that Snake gets more motivation. Valeria Golino plays Taslima, who is captured with Snake by the Surgeon General, and they escape together. Written by Carpenter, Debra Hill, & Russell, based on characters by Carpenter & Nick Castle. Steve Buscemi plays Map To The Stars Eddie.īruce Campbell plays the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills. There’s a fairly starry cast when he gets to LA too, starting with Peter Fonda. Instead of a glider, this time he gets to the island in a nuclear powered submarine. It’s nice to see that 16 years hasn’t improved the technology for wrist-based death counters. Instead of micro explosives, this time Snake is injected with a deadly virus that will kill him in a few hours, but won’t have any noticeable physical effects for several hours. George Corraface plays Cuervo Jones, a Che Guevara cosplayer turned revolutionary, and he’s who the daughter went to LA to join up with. Lee Van Cleef was dead, so in his place is Stacy Keach, who tells Snake that he has to get the Macguffin back, but he can kill the daughter. The President’s Daughter absconded from Air Force One, with a very important piece of technology, landed in LA, and the President wants it back. It’s now 2013 and Snake Plissken has been arrested again, and taken to LA.īut there’s a reason they arrested him. This almost feels like a remake, as it follows the plot of the original rather closely. An Earthquake does hit in 2000, separating LA from the continental US, and the US government, now led by President for Life Robertson, now banishes all those found guilty of ‘moral crimes’ to the island of LA. This was science fiction in 1996 when this film was made. It opens, as did the original, setting up the premise – that in 1998, Los Angeles are so wracked with ‘crime and immorality’ that ‘The United States Police Force’ was set up by a President (Cliff Robertson) who believes a huge Earthquake will wipe out LA in divine retribution. A sequel to John Carpenter’s classic SF movie, and one that, perhaps, we were unwise to wish for, Whoever does take the role in Escape From New York will have a big responsibility to bring the legendary screen outlaw back to life.Over to Sky Premier today for a movie. The filmmakers might completely reinvent Snake too, possibly offering a gender-flipped fronted by the likes of Charlize Theron or even Samara Weaving from Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler's own Ready Or Not. The actor has yet to front a major franchise outside of Aquaman and has shown a talent for anti-hero roles such as Conan or Game Of Thrones' Khal Drago. Previous actors linked to the role like The Punisher's Jon Bernthal or Timothy Olyphant could still be solid choices, though Jason Momoa feels like a prime candidate. The formally attached helmer Leigh Whannell once suggested the actor's son Wyatt, but while there is an uncanny resemblance, The Falcon And The Winter Soldier actor ruled him out of the running, claiming that would be a career killer for him. The casting of Plissken will make or break the project for many, but finding the modern equivalent of Russell won't be easy. There's no release date set for Escape From New York, but with its filmmakers busy on Scream 6, it's at least a couple of years away.
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