Actor Joe Unger filmed scenes as Snake's partner-in-crime Bill Taylor, but they were cut from the final film. ==Production== ===Development and writing=== Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of Nixon's Watergate scandal.
Louis, Missouri, had entire neighborhoods burned out in 1976 during a massive urban fire.
The film was shot from August to November 1980.
Escape from New York (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from New York) is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter.
The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in Halloween. Released in the United States on July 10, 1981, the film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing more than $25 million at the box office.
Scream Factory, in association with Shout! Factory, released the film on a special edition Blu-ray on April 21, 2015. ==Reception== ===Box office=== Escape from New York opened in New York and Los Angeles July 10, 1981.
The film grossed $25.2 million in American theaters in summer 1981. ===Critical response=== The film received generally positive reviews.
Only the tape is visible and appears to be a three-dimensional wireframe animation. ==Music== ===Soundtrack=== ==Release== ===Home media=== ====LaserDisc releases==== Escape from New York was released on LaserDisc 10 times between 1983 and 1998.
(1996), which was also directed and written by Carpenter and starred Russell, but was much less favorably received. ==Plot== In a dystopian 1988, amidst total war against China and the Soviet Union, the United States government has turned Manhattan into a giant maximum-security prison to deal with a 400% increase in crime.
Left for dead in a sinking crab cage, Snake escapes and is saved by a passing fisherman named Captain Ron (an in-joke referring to Kurt Russell's 1992 comedy, Captain Ron).
A 1994 Collector's Edition includes a commentary track by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell that is still included on more recent DVD releases of the film. ====DVD releases==== Escape from New York was released on DVD twice by MGM (USA), and once by Momentum Pictures (UK).
Empire magazine ranked Snake Plissken #29 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll. ==Other media== ===Sequel=== A sequel, Escape from L.A., was released in 1996, with Carpenter returning along with Russell, now also acting as producer and co-writer. ===Remake=== In March 2017, it was announced that Robert Rodriguez would direct a remake of the film with Carpenter producing it.
It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton. The film's storyline, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's maximum-security prison.
A wall surrounds the island, bridges have been mined, rivers are patrolled by helicopters, and all prisoners are sentenced to life terms. In 1997, while flying the President of the United States to a peace summit in Hartford, Connecticut, Air Force One is hijacked by a guerilla fighter of the communist "National Liberation Front", named in reference to the Viet Cong.
Rather than presenting to the world a new energy source in the form of nuclear fusion (as claimed in the film), the tape actually reveals the successful development of a "fallout-free thermonuclear weapon, which would grant the US supremacy in the global conflict. ===Comic books=== Marvel Comics released the one-shot The Adventures of Snake Plissken in January 1997.
Only the tape is visible and appears to be a three-dimensional wireframe animation. ==Music== ===Soundtrack=== ==Release== ===Home media=== ====LaserDisc releases==== Escape from New York was released on LaserDisc 10 times between 1983 and 1998.
As ATACS shuts down, it can only ask him, "Why?" Snake just walks off, answering, "I don't need the competition". In 2003, CrossGen published John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries.
Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.
It wasn't necessary to show what sent him there." The film has been released on the UMD format for Sony's PlayStation Portable. ====Blu-ray release==== On August 3, 2010, MGM Home Entertainment released Escape From New York as a bare-bones Blu-ray.
Following the firefight, the yacht and car are destroyed, Marrs and Captain Ron are dead, and Snake makes his escape in a helicopter with the 30 million credits owed to him for the job. In 2014, BOOM! Studios began publishing an Escape From New York comic book by writer, Christopher Sebela.
Scream Factory, in association with Shout! Factory, released the film on a special edition Blu-ray on April 21, 2015. ==Reception== ===Box office=== Escape from New York opened in New York and Los Angeles July 10, 1981.
Empire magazine ranked Snake Plissken #29 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll. ==Other media== ===Sequel=== A sequel, Escape from L.A., was released in 1996, with Carpenter returning along with Russell, now also acting as producer and co-writer. ===Remake=== In March 2017, it was announced that Robert Rodriguez would direct a remake of the film with Carpenter producing it.
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