Snake Plissken: The Made & Unmade Movies and More

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When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell developed the character of Snake Plissken for Escape from New York, they knew they had a winning character.  Russell enjoyed playing Snake, Carpenter had plans for many future adventures, and most importantly fans loved Snake Plissken.

Snake (Kurt and Carpenter) returned for Escape from LA.  Although not as well-received as EFNY, Escape from LA was not going to be the final adventure for our one-eyed anti-hero.  Next up was to be Escape from Earth.  Sadly, that film never left the launching pad.

But Snake Plissken didn’t fade away.  There were plans for future films, a tv series, comics (that did happen) and video games.  Kieran Fisher at Film School Rejects discusses them all in his article The Snake Plissken Sequels We’ll Never Get to See.  Since you’ve read this far, my guess is you’ll enjoy it.