I remember watching this show as a teenager in the early 80s and thinking about how Vietnam/Johnson/Nixon/Watergate were still fresh in Americas psyche, and that it was a protest of those fiascos, and not to take any of it too seriously. It’s now 2024 and too much of this movie is now real life and not just dystopia/cyberpunk. I now know in some sense how Snake Plisken feels.
1) Never mess with someone who makes out or has made out alive of many life taking situations that would have killed a lesser being. 2) Antihero is what defines the whole I don't give a damn about scenario, especially the ones involving freaking politicians and their shit ass disasters 3) Mess with the best, die like the rest. 4) Skills, calmness and cool in tense situation handlers would most likely give you hell of a sweet revenge if wronged hard. 5) Finally, a pretty freaking cool legendary theme song that goes with a legendary badass leaving the scene with the world in shock is brilliantly superb! Snake Plissken, the one, the only, and the Man for almost any impossible missions will always be my Number 1 Anti Hero! Love EFNY and EFLA.
I think it will work if its Kurt Russell's son but looks like he turned down the part saying its 'career suicide' (but thats only if they do it wrong imo but owell)
I agree, a remake should never be made. However, I would watch a sequel to the second movie where everyone is trying to survive without electricity where the government is looking for an elder Snake.
It was suppose to be a trilogy. Carpenter had an idea for the next one to be “Escape from Earth” which Snake escapes Planetary Destruction while fighting against the USPF. But after L.A.’s box office fail, the studio wouldn’t give Carpenter the budget, plus eventually he was getting sick of Hollyweird and the way things was going for cinema, so it’s never been talked on again. Now he just exec produces ppl that wanna remake his films.
God that movie was stupid. I remember seeing it when it came out. I was 11 or 12. And even as a kid I thought, "Jesus couldn't they have come up with a better script than that?"
But a lot of modern policing is based on the same principle, create no go areas and just let the low life take each other out. London is more and more like this, and so called 'traveller camps' in the UK are considered so dangerous to enter, the police do quick U turns and flee if the car they are chasing goes through their entrance barriers.
