John Carpenter has given the Escape From New York remake script his seal of approval. The original movie from 1981 starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a one-eyed outlaw tasked with rescuing the President from New York, which has been walled off and turned into a maximum security prison. The film is a major cult favorite thanks to Russell’s iconic performance, the Carpenter-composed score and its dark depiction of the future.
Russell and Carpenter returned to the character for 1996’s Escape from L.A., which essentially remade the original in a new setting. The film was criticized for its camp humor and terrible CGI, and its box-office failure saw a planned ...
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