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Escape From New York

1981, Movie, R, 99 mins

Escape From New York: Review

Terrific fun. John Carpenter's futuristic thriller finds convict Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) forced to rescue the president (Donald Pleasence) when his plane goes down over New York City. The U.S. is now a police state, and Manhattan has become one vast prison in which convicts are summarily dumped and left to fend for themselves. If Snake fails to find the president in time, he'll be atomized by a time bomb implanted in his neck by ruthless Lee Van Cleef. Read the complete review for Escape From New York

Escape From New York: Cast & Details

Year: 1981
Rated R

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Cast
Kurt Russell: Snake Plissken
Lee Van Cleef: Bob Hauk
Ernest Borgnine: Cabby
Donald Pleasence: The President
Isaac Hayes: Duke of New York
Season Hubley: Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts

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Escape From New York: TV Guide News

Gerard Butler Escapes Remake, More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 10/31/2007
Gerard Butler (300) has bowed out of the Escape from New York remake, citing "creative differences".... Also per Variety, Spider-man 4 has tapped James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) to pen the script, which unlike No. 3 will feature two baddies, max. Neither Tobey, Kirsten nor director Sam Raimi have yet to sign on.... Ridley and Tony Scott are producing Tell-Tale, a psychological thriller inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story, says the Reporter.... Saw IV baddie Tobin Bell is a good-guy sheriff in a big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel Bump. read more
Arrested Alum Joins Revolt, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 8/15/2007
Arrested Development's Michael Cera, who stars in this Friday's Superbad, has joined the cast of Youth in Revolt, a big-screen take on C.D. Payne's novel series.... JAG alum David James Elliott is in production on the indie The Rainbow Tribe, playing a cancer victim who helps out at a camp for troubled youths.... Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is in talks to helm the Gerard Butler-fronted Escape from New York remake.Related: Gerard Butler Ponders Great Escape read more
Rapid-fire Remakes, Deceptive Marketing, Unusual Musicals and More Answers | Movie News | 5/16/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick Question Im a great fan of your column I read it religiously every time it comes out Heres my question Ive never been all that interested in musicals I dont dislike them on principle I just never felt very attracted to them but recently I caught up with Jacques Demys The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and it completely knocked my socks off It absolutely blew me away so much so that Im ready to call it one of my favorite movies of all time I was completely hooked on its unusual format Every single line is sung and there are no big numbers like in regular musicals It made the entire movie feel like one long beautiful hymn Is there any other movie that has used this same format Or more importantly is there any other movie that has used this format successfully Oskar Sigvardsson all the way from Stockholm SwedenFlickChick This is an excellent question and one I find especially interesting in that I only caught read more be the first to leave a comment
At the Movies: Gerard Butler Ponders Great Escape | Today's News: Our Take | 3/13/2007
Per Variety, several studios are battling over dibs on a remake of John Carpenter's Escape from New York, to headline Gerard Butler (300) as one-eyed convict Snake Plissken.... Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Justin Long and Chris Evans have joined the voice cast of Terra, a CG-animated pic about interplanetary conflict.... DreamWorks Animation plans to produce all of its films in 3-D starting in 2009, beginning with the summer release Monsters vs. Aliens. read more
Sheppard, McKay, Teyla and Ronon... | Today's News: Our Take | 8/15/2005
Sheppard, McKay, Teyla and Ronon crash-landed ("Shot down by the cast of Braveheart," griped Rodney) in an Alcatrazlike prison located on an island that is a de facto feeding ground for the Wraith. In fact, the whole reason the Wraith left the remainder of Elysia (I'm guessing at the spelling) alone is because the porky, amoral magistrate cut a deal with a hammy Wraith rep who sips blood-colored wine with the phony decadence of somebody who has gorged himself on Anne Rice's oeuvre. Add Donald Pleasance's severed finger, and the plot would have been a complete recycle of Escape from New York (which, incidentally, starred Kurt Russell, the Jack O'Neill of the original silver-screen Stargate, a film that also featured James Spader, who was in Crash with Holly Hunter, whom I saw present a 1996 Golden Globe alongside… wait for it… Kevin Bacon). Not that I'd put severing body parts past Torrell and his thugs. They did read more