Escape from New York

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Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken vs Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China): Face-Off

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Which Kurt Russell/ John Carpenter anti-hero is better, Escape from New York's Snake Plissken or Big Trouble in Little China's Jack Burton?

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WTF Happened to Escape from New York (1981)?

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Chris John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) is the movie that made Kurt Russell a bad-ass. Going into this film, Russell was best known for a run of Disney films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The World’s...

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Escape from New York 4K UHD collector’s edition release scheduled for May

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Scream Factory is bringing director John Carpenter‘s 1981 sci-fi action classic Escape from New York (watch it HERE) to 4K UHD for the first time in the United States and Canada on May 17th, and the company is currently accepting...

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Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Boba Fett, The King’s Man, Loki, Seinfeld

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Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

John Carpenter: Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken deserved three or four movies

Posted 5 years ago

While collaborating on the 1981 sci-fi action classic Escape from New York (watch it HERE), director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell created an iconic character who was worth building a franchise around, war hero turned criminal Snake Plissken. Sadly,...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: The Crow, Loki, Robocop, Star Wars

Posted 5 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Escape from New York: Adrienne Barbeau on how J.J. Abrams changed the movie

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The John Carpenter classic Escape from New York (watch it HERE) celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and Variety caught up with co-star Adrienne Barbeau – who was also married to Carpenter when the film was in production – to...

Escape from New York remake: Wyatt Russell will not be Snake Plissken

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Two years have passed since Leigh Whannell signed on to write and possibly direct a remake of the John Carpenter classic Escape from New York (watch it HERE), which starred Kurt Russell as iconic anti-hero Snake Plissken. We haven't heard...

Escape from New York reboot: Wyatt Russell isn’t interested in playing Snake

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There have been several attempts at getting a reboot of John Carpenter's Escape from New York off the ground, but the last we heard, Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man) was penning the screenplay with the possibility that he may direct...

John Carpenter says he may return to directing in recent interview

Posted 5 years ago

So this is cool! In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, iconic genre filmmaker John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, They Live) said that, if given the right opportunity, he'd be willing to come back to directing after a decade away from the...

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